Fedora 9 Beta, PackageKit and system-config-printer

[Rahul Sundaram]

Richard Hughes wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-03-20 at 04:25 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> Things like enabling updates-testing repository to quickly grab a new 
>> package, enabling a repository for a particular session when it is 
>> otherwise disabled
> 
> That we can do already.
> 
>> pointing to a local mirror or different source for a 
>> repository
> 
> Is that a common use case?

In my environment, yes. I have a lan mirror that lags a few days behind 
the master Fedora mirrors at times so If I want to grab a new package 
that is been available very recently, I switch to master mirrors. Then I 
have a custom repository in a portable hard disk I switch to on 
occasions. Since I am playing a lot with fedora spins these days I have 
a need to do this often. Maybe not be a common use case in general. 
Certainly useful for me and I suspect others do a lot of similar things 
judging by the number of questions we get in user forums regarding this.

>> switching between base url and mirror list etc are things I 
>> do pretty often.
> 
> Why do you do this out of interest?

To grab the latest package when it hasn't reached the mirrors. There is 
a delay that can be significant depending on which mirrors you are 
hitting. Some users just stick with the base url but I switch back to 
mirror lists because I don't want to hammer the master.

Rahul