Re: [CentOS] UC What happened to 6.1

2011-11-16 Thread Rushton Martin
One exception is those machines behind a firewall that does not allow downloads. The only upgrade path then is to download on another machine and burn DVDs. CR repos are not helpful in such a case! Martin Rushton HPC System Manager, Weapons Technologies Tel: 01959 514777, Mobile: 07939 219057

Re: [CentOS] UC What happened to 6.1

2011-11-16 Thread John Hodrien
On Wed, 16 Nov 2011, Rushton Martin wrote: One exception is those machines behind a firewall that does not allow downloads. The only upgrade path then is to download on another machine and burn DVDs. CR repos are not helpful in such a case! I really don't get your point. How is that worse

Re: [CentOS] UC What happened to 6.1

2011-11-16 Thread Nataraj
On 11/16/2011 02:21 AM, Rushton Martin wrote: One exception is those machines behind a firewall that does not allow downloads. The only upgrade path then is to download on another machine and burn DVDs. CR repos are not helpful in such a case! Unfortunately, I don't know of any distros that

Re: [CentOS] UC What happened to 6.1

2011-11-16 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 16.11.2011 um 19:07 schrieb Nataraj: On 11/16/2011 02:21 AM, Rushton Martin wrote: One exception is those machines behind a firewall that does not allow downloads. The only upgrade path then is to download on another machine and burn DVDs. CR repos are not helpful in such a case!

Re: [CentOS] UC What happened to 6.1

2011-11-16 Thread John Hodrien
On Wed, 16 Nov 2011, Nataraj wrote: Unfortunately, I don't know of any distros that cater to anyone with that level of security requirement anymore (or even someone who just didn't have an Internet connection). There used to be distros where you could receive updates monthly on a CDROM.