FC4 state of affairs and FC5

[Kyrre Ness Sjobak]

ons, 07.09.2005 kl. 17.56 skrev Paul A Houle:
> Alan Cox wrote:
> 
> >
> >Nothing is stopping anyone making new ISO images with the fixes, nor putting
> >up FC4 "old gnome-pilot" packages. 
> >  
> >
>     Something along these lines might make a nice project for someone.
> 
>     Whenever I install FC,  I end up downloading the ISO images,  
> installing -- after a few weeks it seems that many of the packages have 
> been updated,  so I do hundreds of megabytes worth of downloading.  This 
> isn't the end of the world on my DSL line,  but it's an annoyance.
> 
>     It would be nice if someone respun Fedora with the latest rpms every 
> month,  every week,  whatever.  It's probably not that hard to do -- I 
> guess it's just a matter of setting up your directories for spinning a 
> distribution,  and putting in the latest RPM directory from the mirror 
> sites,  right?  And,  of course,  testing it to make sure that it all 
> works through firstboot.

Doing that many respins will cause that every user have downloaded a
different image. I really, really hope (as one who often tries to help
out newbies on forums etc) that that never happens. But one respin
"mid-life" of the distro, would be OK (or after serious bugs *affecting
installation seriously*) are fixed. But please name the images carefully
(something in the line of "fedora-core-4-update1-disk1.iso"). Or have a
posibillity to use "additional disks" with other versions of
packages/install kernel/anaconda/etc.

Just label them really good.

Kyrre