On Sun, 19 Oct 2003, Trae McCombs wrote:
(putting this at the bottom like a good little boy...)
Trimming like a good little boy would have been even better. :-)
I know I'm not the most technically inclined person, and I know
I've not
fully followed this thread. However, I do feel in the case of saving
bandwidth, and making upgrades more accessible to those that are limited
with their pipes, I think it makes sense to have a low-file-sized
solution for those wishing to upgrade their full systems.
For instance, Let's say I've completed a full install of FC1.0 (I know
it's not out), and then when the next release comes, I could download a
"patch.ISO" of roughly 300megs or so, I'm guessing(probably incorrectly)
that this would be the difference from one version to the next. At any
rate, it would be nice to be able to download a patch.ISO that's one CD,
and have it patch/upgrade your system, instead of having to download 3
iso's.
Sounds good on the surface but in reality it does not get you much when
you go from major release to major release. The changes are just too great.
I have used rsync to "update" iso's many times and while it does save some
time/bandwidth on a major release it typically does not save much. Generally
speaking even when going from a test1 to test2 etc. the savings are minimal.
HTH,
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