On Wednesday 02 March 2005 11:39, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
On Mar 1, 2005, Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On 01 Mar 2005 18:53:45 -0300, Alexandre Oliva <aoliva(a)redhat.com> wrote:
>> How about: internet access only from work, monitored downloads, no CD
>> burning permitted, small amount of web browsing tolerated?
>
> How does that system get any update packages at all?
Odds are it doesn't need them, since it's not connected.
While security updates may not have the same level of concern for unconnected
systems, bugfixes are. With Fedora Core having a much higher number of
updates issued than Red Hat Linux had, updating unconnected systems or
network of systems is an issue with network-only updating.
As I see it there are two issues:
1. Will the updating program be able to pull updates from a CD or DVD with
updated packages on it? If the current up2date has this capability, I have
not been able to figure out how to make it work.
2. Will the master repositories be organized in such a manner as to "make it
easy" to mirror updates. Yes, I know there will be official mirror sites but
will I be able to easily get all the updates and then "move them" to some
media for updating stand-alone systems or networks of systems.
My experience is that I have fewer problems if I keep up-to-date than if I
just apply fixes when a problem occurs.
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Gene