Some ideas/questions about yum

[Hedayat Vatnakhah]

/*Muayyad AlSadi <alsadi at gmail.com>*/ wrote on ‫شنبه ۲۹ اوت ۰۹، ۰۳:۰۴:۳۷‬:
>>   1. Since Fedora 4, Fedora doesn't support installing software from DVD "out of the box". Fedora 8 is an exception here. Currently, it seems that the work is almost done (99% completed as in [1]), and fixing the remaining 1% doesn't seem to need much work but unfortunately it seems that it is stopped. I think requesting a small collaboration between the feature owner, PolicyKit and/or GIO people is not too much.
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>
> I have done that part 100% for yumex nextgen
> and it will work in F12 since the patch was accepted upstream
> (you just need to copy media.repo from the DVD to /etc/yum.repos.d/)
>    
That's great, thanks :)

> but the PK implementation got a problem
> either we modify the file
> /usr/share/PolicyKit/policy/org.freedesktop.devicekit.disks.policy
>
> to grant root to access
> org.freedesktop.devicekit.disks.filesystem-mount
>
> or wait till the PK API is rewritten so that mounting is done in the
> non-privileged  console user part
>
> and since the second option can't be done in F12 time
> and the first option is needs a policy change [which I can't change]
> you won't have this feature in F12
>    
Considering the long time that this feature is unavailable, waiting one 
more release is not hard! :P

Good luck,
Hedayat
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