Why not provide regenerated ISOs after package update

pswzyu · June 30, 2011, 3:05pm

I think opensuse should provide regenerated ISO files to public after several package updated.

I think this may help reduce duplicate bug reports and reduce net traffics.

I think this can greatly increase the user experience of opensuse.

Thanks!

ken_yap · June 30, 2011, 3:29pm

It would probably increase traffic. Why download again most of what’s already on the release media? You do realise that when you are online when you install from CD or DVD, it will use the most recent version of a package from an online repo, so you get the up to date packages anyway?

martin_helm · June 30, 2011, 3:32pm

Why don’t you make a feature request in openFATE?
https://features.opensuse.org/

robin_listas · June 30, 2011, 3:50pm

On 2011-06-30 15:06, pswzyu wrote:
>
> I think opensuse should provide regenerated ISO files to public after
> several package updated.

Tell them - not us.

> I think this may help reduce duplicate bug reports and reduce net
> traffics.
>
> I think this can greatly increase the user experience of opensuse.

I don’t think so.

For one, the iso images are tested; your proposed isos would not.

A possibility would be an iso of patches.

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hendersj · June 30, 2011, 5:15pm

On Thu, 30 Jun 2011 13:06:03 +0000, pswzyu wrote:

> I think opensuse should provide regenerated ISO files to public after
> several package updated.
>
> I think this may help reduce duplicate bug reports and reduce net
> traffics.
>
> I think this can greatly increase the user experience of opensuse.

As others suggested, this is something that should go into the feature
tracking system openFATE.

Consider, though, the amount of testing that goes into releasing ISOs.
Now consider the amount of additional work needed to test updated ISOs
every time (say) 50 packages are updated, and whether you’d rather the
developers spent their time testing ISOs that the majority of users
aren’t going to use or if they should instead be spending time on the
next release.

Then again, the “next release” does tend to be a “regenerated ISO
released to the public after a certain period of time has passed”. So
what you’re really talking about is changing the release cycle (making it
shorter).

Jim

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malcolmlewis · June 30, 2011, 5:39pm

Hi
Users can create their own updated images on SuSE Studio as it
automatically adds the updates… http://susestudio.com

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