Feature proposal : media:// gnome url handler for requesting users to insert needed CD/DVD

Jeremy Katz katzj at redhat.com
Wed Aug 15 17:09:11 UTC 2007


On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 22:06 +0530, Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray wrote:
> >> Imagine user clicking menu =Applications->Add/Remove Software= and she
> >> configured CD/DVD based yum repositories(is it possible currently?)
> >> before. Would pirut request her to insert the needed CD/DVD?
> 
> > Would using opyum instead help?
> 
> Sorry for the late reply. Well this is not directly related to Opyum.
> It is more of a Pirut/Yum issue in my opinion. I think Yum already has
> support for CD/DVD based repositories.

The support is there in pirut, too, the big thing is just the
configuration side.  The work that Debarshi started for a config
interface in pirut will definitely help here in exposing it, and will
hopefully be ready in time for the feature freeze

Jeremy




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