> I just wondered what reasons people would download the SRPMS DVD ISO > image and burn it to a disk. SRPMS are useful, no question, but how > useful is a set of outdated SRPMS in a week or two? ;o) There is a non-ignorable set of installations that never yum or up2date. They always run the original official release and nothing else. They have very good external firewalls; some are even disconnected from all external networks. The users are either all experts, or all newbies. The budget for maintenance is zero. The disaster recovery plan for system software (as opposed to application data) is: re-install the last official release from the gold[en] CDs. This is guaranteed to be a perfect recovery, with no possibility of any changes. If you are a consultant to such a system, then the SRPMs DVD never becomes outdated. [Some of these systems do run RHEL named update rollups, such as Taroon Update 5. But it is installed fresh from the full CD .iso images, not as an upgrade to any earlier release.] -- -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
