Question about Fedora Extras 5

Jeremy Katz katzj at redhat.com
Thu Feb 2 21:51:30 UTC 2006


On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 13:39 +0000, Karanbir Singh wrote:
> n0dalus wrote:
> > Atleast how I would imagine it is: The installer would ask you to
> > provide any additional CDs if you need to at the end of the install,
> > and would update any available packages from the CDs, whether they be
> > extras or core or third party.

> the ideal situation would be if the installer could ask 'before' the 
> install if you have any other Cd's around. And just install the updated 
> packages in the first place. Rather than needing to install the 'usual 
> stuff' and then having to run an update.
> 
> and I believe some work is being done along these lines already.

Yes, hopefully we'll be able to start doing this sort of stuff in the
FC6 timeframe

Jeremy




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