A few ideas for FC7+

Mon Oct 23 14:22:08 UTC 2006

On Sun, 2006-10-22 at 15:30 -0500, Matt Domsch wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 22, 2006 at 12:05:17AM -0700, Peter Gordon wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> The DVDs and CDs include repodata directories, so they're full yum
> repositories themselves.  You sure could add entries to
> /etc/yum.repos.d/ pointing at them.

Apparently not, it pukes something about that it doesn't know
"media://..." URLs.

Nils
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