On Wednesday 02 March 2005 11:39, Alexandre Oliva wrote: > On Mar 1, 2005, Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 01 Mar 2005 18:53:45 -0300, Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@xxxxxxxxxx> 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. -- Gene
