On 20/02/18 04:25, Achim Gratz wrote:
Richard Brown writes:
And yet, creating a 3rd flavour of image, would need a significant amount of build time/power, and significant amount of testing required.
The more I think about this, the more I think our 4.1DVD image might still be the best middle ground that we have to balance these competing concerns.
I agree, but there is an option I've not seen discussed so far: keep the Netinstall and DVD and provide add-on DVD (and maybe DL-DVD) images with the most popular packages from the repos for those folks who can't go onto the net on their install locations. The installer should ask the user if he wants to use these, but they'd be available only after successful install and so would not need much additional testing. Those images would also provide an offline update path later on.
Regards, Achim.
This is probably a worse option then having a 4Gb and 8Gb image, it involves doing something that we don't currently do and would make testing even more complex and different from testing the net install so it would require writing new tests rather then just reusing the tests we have. -- Simon Lees (Simotek) http://simotek.net Emergency Update Team keybase.io/simotek SUSE Linux Adelaide Australia, UTC+10:30 GPG Fingerprint: 5B87 DB9D 88DC F606 E489 CEC5 0922 C246 02F0 014B