Anaconda based on yum in FC6 ??

[dragoran]

Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:
> On 6/27/06, Harry Smith <thingsmith at comcast.net> wrote:
>>  I know that the change in to use yum to add or delete rpm in FC5 has 
>> given
>> me an opportunity to learn about the internals of yum.  (management 
>> speak
>> for a royal pain.)  The systems that I build and use do not have 
>> access to
>> the net even at dial-up rates.  (As FC5 point to RH5, I hope that 
>> this is
>> not one of the changes that RH is considering for v5. )
>>
>>  I would hate to think that  FC6 would not even install it was 
>> isolated from
>> the net.   In fact, I would hope serious discussion and consideration
>> happening about reversing the thinking in FC5 for adding and removing
>> packages.  This is a good example of on paper sounds good but fails in
>> practice.  I like to be able to add and remove packages without being
>> connected to the net or having to having to change between different yum
>> configuration files.
>
> I think you have some rather basic misconceptions about the way yum
> works. Yum doesn't require net access to function -- all repositories
> can be just pointing at local resources, using file:///.
>
> Moreover,  "serious discussion and consideration" happens here all the
> time, and you seem to be the first one to claim that it "sounds good
> on paper but fails in practice." If you have specific problems with
> the way yum package management works in offline mode, then please
> bring them up namely. Saying "yum sucks" simply makes us regard you as
> a troll (that's management speak for "troll").
>
> Regards,
pirut does not have an option to install from cds/dvds which 
system-conig-packages was able to, but this is a known issue