Re: .iso files for RedHat '7.2.1' or RedHat '7.2A'?

["Andrew Smith" <rhml k1k2 com>]

> Wil Cooley <wcooley nakedape cc> writes:
> 
>> Also Sprach Trond Eivind Glomsr?d <teg redhat com> on Thu, Jan 24,
>> 2002 at 12:00:41PM PST
>> > Bill Crawford <bill syseng netcom net uk> writes:
>> > 
>> > > On 24 Jan 2002, Trond Eivind Glomsrød wrote:
>> > > 
>> > > > Wil Cooley <wcooley nakedape cc> writes:
>> > > ...
>> > > > > For a long time I've wanted Red Hat (or someone,
>> > > > > CheapBytes maybe) to release updated disks doing nothing more
>> > > > > than incorporating errata.
>> > > 
>> > > > Changing the images (even if it just is adding erratas) and
>> > > > representing it as Red Hat Linux wouldn't be correct, even
>> > > > before considering trademark issues.
>> > > 
>> > >  Surely RH can issue a "with errata" release of the ISO images? 
>> > >  Most
>> > > publishers include emendations in book reprints, after all.  It
>> > > seems to me that's a similar issue.  Call it 7.2-2 or something,
>> > > or Red Hat Reprise, or whatever you like ...
>> > 
>> > They probably wouldn't even fit on the CDs, and it would require QA,
>> > testing etc.
>> 
>> I think he was talking about removing the outdated RPMs and
>> replacing them. 
> 
> Things grow, additions have been made.
> 
>> And I'd assume they've been through QA, since they were officially
>> released as updates ;) 
> 
> Not as an integrated part of an install.
> 
> -- 
> Trond Eivind Glomsrød
> Red Hat, Inc.

Hmmmm ... hope the reply doesn't mean what it sounds like.

Bero to the rescue? :-)

I thought RedHat's two points where:
1) Package Linux
2) Develop Linux
Sounds like QA means that item one is a grey area except on official
full new release.
Feel free to correct this :-)

Especially when a single person can do the above
(according to the how to)
but without the "integration QA"

A standard install with up2date is exactly the same thing as an
updated ISO install except the installer hasn't been run.
Is the installer that bad/unreliable/hard to get working/needs
years of man hours of QA
when the errata updates have been added?

Had a look at the "How to Make a CD page" ... interesting that the
errata updates is the second listed reason why someone would want to
make a RedHat CD.

However ...
I've stayed clear of 7.2 coz so many questions/problems when it first
came out - and now I'd have to download buckets of updates
and of course there is a known problem with the original install
regarding CD's - but I don't think that matches any of my setups
and ... 600Mb costs me over $110 Aus
(until I get my 2nd ADSL connection working in the next few days - I
got it so I can consider many things including downloading RedHat
updates)

Now if I could just buy a 7.2 with updates ... no chance of that ever
happening from RedHat as I understand ... ?

Bero - how much for you to ship me the updated ISOs on CD? (To Aus)
Feel free to charge for time, effort and media also ;-)
-- 
-Cheers
-Andrew

MS ... if only he hadn't been hang gliding!