Announcing Fedora Core 6 Test 2 (5.91)

[Bill Nottingham]

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