Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (441 mails)

["Rajko M." <rmatov101@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 11 March 2009 09:19:00 am Carlos E. R. wrote:
> On Tuesday, 2009-03-10 at 10:47 -0500, Rajko M. wrote:
> > > If making a second release is too much effort, how about releasing an
> > > add-on CD/DVD disk with the updates? Maybe including it with the box.
> >
> > The add-on update DVD is not a problem. Handpick last updates, download
> > and burn. It is work, but it's not everyday work.
>
> Well, I'm not sure what exactly to download (it must have a certain
> structure, I suppose), but is it possible to tell the install disk to use
> another disk (another dvd or HD on USB) for the updates, instead of the
> network?

You can tell YaST what to use. 
I have in mind update after installation. It is safe way.
For that you have to pick latest rpm of each package, and point YaST or zypper 
to that directory. 

> > I was talking about respin, just because there is a base that GM was
> > created from. Replace packages with updated versions and run kiwi again.
> > If everyone has to do that there will be no guaranteed quality, and
> > individual mistakes will be attributed to openSUSE, not individual that
> > made them.
>
> If the process to make the factory dvd is automated, couldn't also be
> automated the creation of a DVD for the current distribution with all
> packages updated to whatever is available in the update tree?

I guess that is possible to replace original rpms with those in update tree 
and rerun whatever software is used to create DVD. 

I haven't tried that, but it seems that is good time to learn how to do it. 

-- 
Regards, Rajko
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