Announcing Fedora Core 6 Test 2 (5.91)
Bill Nottingham
notting at redhat.com
Mon Aug 7 15:00:08 UTC 2006
Dennis Gilmore (dennis at ausil.us) said:
> > Yep -- although for FC6 final, it'll require knowing and inputting the
> > repository info manually[1]. In the future, I want to look into ways of
> > pulling this sort of information and having a pre-populated list of
> > things such as updates and extras to be able to just select.
>
> as a thought how hard would it be to make It work for say a extras DVD? say
> just before fc6 release we snapshot extras, run createrepo on it and make a
> dvd iso, or even cd isos can we do that? I guess for cds you would have
> to do something similar to debian and insert each cd/dvd at the start so
> that the repo metadata can be read. but then the install would offer all
> those packages. dvd would be simpler you dont need to worry about
> dependency order so much
At the moment, it only supports http/ftp additional repos.
Bill
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