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On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 11:59, Brad Laue wrote: |
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> Greetings all, |
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> A concern of mine about many Linux distributions is that in the long |
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> haul between binary releases of a distribution, the packages included |
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> with the release can become quite old. In Gentoo's case, if one GRP |
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> installed their system nine months from now and emerge -u'd, they would |
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> be faced with a considerable number of packages to update (I wouldn't be |
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> surprised if it was all of them). |
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> The Gentoo 1.4.1 release re-ignited my curiosity on this topic. Will |
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> there be regular interim releases between major upgrades, or will |
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> releases like these solely fix bugs? |
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> If the latter, can a GRP ISO be created say, every two months? This |
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> would only add ~500MB per architecture involved, since there wouldn't be |
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> any need to archive the older versions of the ISO. |
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> Realising that Gentoo is of course a source-based distribution, quickly |
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> and easily installing the latest and greatest by using emerge -k, then |
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> optimizing by rebuilding incrementally has surely sparked a great deal |
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> of additional interest in the distribution. |
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> What does everyone think? |
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It sounds great, but I think we're battling now with a problem of us |
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taking up way too much space on our mirrors. In fact, there is a thread |
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discussing the removal of the ISO images. |
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-- |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Developer, Gentoo Linux |
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Games Team |
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