-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2006-10-20 at 13:53 +0200, Andreas Jaeger wrote: [adding the ftp tree as add-on media during install]
If so, excellent: this would provide the best of both worlds, in that if the DVD contains the latest version of a package, that local version will be installed (faster and less bandwidth), and if there's an update available on the FTP site, then you get that immediately, without requiring an immediate update cycle.
I agree - but it needs some serious testing,
The feature or use of that I'm most interested in, is during update. Example: updating from 10.1 to 10.2. There are a bunch of packages that are not included in the 10.1 dvd and were installed from the ftp tree during normal system usage. If during the system upgrade only the VDs/DVD is available, those packages that are not in the new 10.2 DVD will be removed from the system, and the user will have to reinstall them later when he discovers that they are missing - this is what happened to me while going from 9.3 to 10.1 - From what you have already said, I gather it should work. I'm interested in that, but I'm reluctant to test this with the 10.2 beta on my working 10.1 install. In order to test this I'd probably have to install 10.1 in a new partition, add some packages from the ftp, then upgrade to one of the 10.2 betas. A day or two work, plus the time to download and burn all the CDs plus the 10.1 remastered DVD. A week at least. Ough. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFFPAZytTMYHG2NR9URAnXFAJ0Z0tOQeAFRz7nCZ7deGPQdZQS5XgCfb8bR HFaXu2mzwJ/iWm6SJP9Zef4= =PEgJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org