On Sun, Feb 18, 2007 at 03:14:39PM -0700, Archive wrote: > I really like the idea passed on to me of getting the entire 14 disk > ETCH (older and therefore stable) distribution on a R/W DVD where the An older Etch is exactly the opposite of what you want. In the time since the freeze, there have been dozens of release-critical bug fixes and a number of security updates. Thus, running an older Etch is bad if you plan to be online and is also generally bad since you are more likely to encounter a bug that was fixed at a time after the date of the particular snapshot of Etch you are using. > first DVD contains the installer. Apparently, this approach using the > appropriate package management calls will allow that same R/W DVD to be > automatically updated. Another person advocating this approach > indicated that I could use the ISO files instead of creating a mirror of > the POOL (directory having the latests release, testing, and others) > packages.However, I like the idea but it may have a flaw which I detail > further on near the bottom. > I'm not sure that you can do that with a DVD. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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