[indiana-discuss] new ISO soon?

[Michael Schuster]

Will Murnane wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 12:05, Dennis Clarke <blastwave at gmail.com> wrote:
>> doesn't this achieve the same effect ?
> Not exactly, for this reason:
>> XFER (MB)
>> 1334.65/1334.65
> Downloading 1.3 gigabytes of updates isn't a problem for me, but for
> users with unstable or slow internet connections, it is.  Not to
> mention, if you have more than one machine, you need to download the
> updates on each individually (unless ofc I'm missing something).
> 
>> so .. why drop another ISO if the process works as expected ?
> Downloading things once instead of many times is nice.  With Debian, I
> can set up a local package proxy and fetch things only once, but I
> don't think there's anything like that for OpenSolaris yet.  A general
> proxy like Squid would probably work, but compared to the ease of
> apt-cacher or approx it's a little trickier to deal with.

Does the liveCD offer that feature (ie a set of up-to-date packages to 
be installed like that)?

Michael
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