FC4 state of affairs and FC5

[Michael Wiktowy]

Paul A Houle wrote:

>    It would be nice if someone respun Fedora with the latest rpms
> every month,  every week,  whatever.  It's probably not that hard to
> do -- I guess it's just a matter of setting up your directories for
> spinning a distribution,  and putting in the latest RPM directory from
> the mirror sites,  right?  And,  of course,  testing it to make sure
> that it all works through firstboot.

Aren't many of the problems that this is designed to circumvent going to
be solved with anaconda becoming aware of extras and updates during install?
You still have the issue of having to download the updates.  Maybe yum
could get a bit smarter [1] about CD-based repos and people who don't
have net access on all the boxes that they manage can make their own
update-repo-on-a-CD.

... or am I mistaken about the scope of the anaconda changes coming for FC5?

/Mike

[1] AFAIK, you can make a repo on a CD by making a .repo file that
points to the url file:///media/cd[recorder,rom] but having repos that
span CDs and having yum fail gracefully on a absent repo CD would be
where things need some work.