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From: Matt Giwer on 19 Nov 2009 07:22 12 was released a few days ago and despite my usual "let the other gut find the problems" approach I upgraded a recent Fedora 11 install. The 11 install was less that two weeks ago on a new machine. 1) It took forever. The install and upgrade times seem to be in direct proportion to the release number. 2) The first thing I did was a yum upgrade (essentially the same as update) and it is now in the process of downloading 2.5 GB of upgrade/update material. 3) Huh!?! This is more than double my usual month or two procrastination requires to upgrade. 3a) Note: most changes are in fast developing apps. What you see in your regular upgrades would appear to be a lot more than this but an upgrade after install should only see the most recent. I am aware that a release needs be frozen long before the release date to work out the bugs. This might as well have been frozen just after Fedora 11 was released. The entire install disk is only 3.5GB. Is Redhat telling me to use network install? -- The conundrum of Judaism, Christianity and Islam is simple to state. Is God circumcized? -- The Iron Webmaster, 4201 http://www.giwersworld.org/disinfo/occupied-2.phtml a6 Thu Nov 19 07:09:54 EST 2009
From: Nico Kadel-Garcia on 19 Nov 2009 19:16
On Nov 19, 7:22 am, Matt Giwer <matt(a)localhost> wrote: > 12 was released a few days ago and despite my usual "let the other > gut find the problems" approach I upgraded a recent Fedora 11 install. The > 11 install was less that two weeks ago on a new machine. > > 1) It took forever. The install and upgrade times seem to be in direct > proportion to the release number. > > 2) The first thing I did was a yum upgrade (essentially the same as update) > and it is now in the process of downloading 2.5 GB of upgrade/update > material. > > 3) Huh!?! This is more than double my usual month or two procrastination > requires to upgrade. > > 3a) Note: most changes are in fast developing apps. What you see in your > regular upgrades would appear to be a lot more than this but an upgrade > after install should only see the most recent. > > I am aware that a release needs be frozen long before the release > date to work out the bugs. This might as well have been frozen just after > Fedora 11 was released. The entire install disk is only 3.5GB. > > Is Redhat telling me to use network install? No, network install typically works with the base OS repository unless you carefully point it to the "Everything" repository, not the bare "os" repository. The Everything repository is *insanely* large: keeping the maps for Alien Arena and other first shooters in it seems nutty to me, and makes keeping a local mirror more difficult. |