A few ideas for FC7+
Bill Nottingham
notting at redhat.com
Mon Oct 23 15:24:57 UTC 2006
Peter Gordon (peter at thecodergeek.com) said:
> Secondly, the current setup of Pirut is that it downloads things from the
> network whenever you go to install something. Is there work being done to be
> able to use the installer DVDs/CDs as optional repositories for this? (That
> way, a user whose Internet connection is slow or non-functional would be able
> to install packages from the discs, rather than the net.
It's planned for some point in the future - requires pushing some of
the media support from anaconda into yum...
> Tangential to this point actually, is a third point: Are there planes to have
> a packages CD/DVD of sorts which contains a snapshot of Extras packaging? I
> think this would also be a definite plus, as many of the packages in Extras
> are rather large (especially much of the game data for things like Nexuiz and
> Tremulous)...
... which makes something like this more sensible once it's fixed.
Bill
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