On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 09:00, Jeremy Katz wrote: > It was a bit of a hack to try to get to where the update releases only > required pushing out a single new CD. Unfortunately, with the size of > the update releases that ended up not being feasible. The code is still > there in RHEL3, but it was a quick one-off that wasn't really generally > usable and so went the way of the dodo. > > With the work going on to use yum as the backend for package > installation in cvs HEAD, something like this will become more feasible > for the future I don't quite understand the connection with update releases and cd's. With an update release, the size of the RedHat/Updates directory goes to zero. It is the in the interim between update releases that this ability (to get the current updates during an install, instead of post-install) is so much more efficient. Could this code be re-enabled, possibly with a boot or kickstart parameter? -Ed
