Fedora 7 and enabling updates repositories at install time

[Jeremy Katz]

On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 08:18 -0500, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Wednesday 10 January 2007 05:54, Axel Thimm wrote:
> > Is this something to fix in anaconda or in the updates repo? Having
> > installs properly use the updated packages would be a *great* feature.
> 
> Its actually something that needs to be fixed in RPM I think.  Its only broken 
> for media installs or NFS ISO because of the way that rpm prepares a 
> transaction and needs the headers for this, and we don't have access to the 
> headers from the other CDs, so ordering gets really bad.  If you're doing 
> http/ftp/nfs(non-iso) installs, you should be safe to enable updates at 
> install time.

That's not an entirely fair characterization -- it's really inherent to
how the entire stack works and a fix could go into any of a number of
places.  Each has its own level of making me want to puke :-/

It's definitely something that needs some more looking at before saying
anything definitive for F7.

Jeremy