Fedora 7 and enabling updates repositories at install time

Jima jima at beer.tclug.org
Tue Jan 9 18:09:50 UTC 2007


On Tue, 9 Jan 2007, Jeffrey C. Ollie wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 11:50 -0500, Jesse Keating wrote:
>> I just remembered what the problem was with FC6+updates.  With FC6, the
>> content from the extra repos gets installed after the content from the
>> CD/DVD/NFS base repo.  Since your updates would replace the packages from
>> these repos, you get into nasty install problems where you need something
>> from one of these repos before the next thing from your base repo.
>
> Hmm... it could be because I was doing relatively minimal "server"
> installs, but I didn't see any evidence of this.  I'll attach the
> (sanitized) kickstart file that I've been using.

  My installs, too, were fairly minimal.  Perhaps it falls apart with 
larger packagesets (or maybe specific packages?); I'll poke around a 
little and see.

      Jima




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