Fedora Installation Guide FC6

Rahul sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Mon Aug 21 14:33:02 UTC 2006


Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 19:48 +0530, Rahul wrote:
>> Scott Glaser wrote:
>>> I need a bit more information. What is the extra repo entry? What are
>>> the other odds and ends? Could you please expand on these so I can get
>>> started on these this weekend?
>>>
>> I guess "extra repo entry" refers to the ability of Anaconda in Fedora 
>> Development tree to use any yum software repository during installation 
>> itself so that you can select and install packages from Fedora Extras 
>> and any custom defined repository by providing the url
> 
> Correct.  Note that there's also another tiny change pending here to add
> easy checkbox access to Extras and the currently available updates
> (well, I'm not 100% sold on the latter... but definitely the former).  I
> hope to land that today or tomorrow.

Yay. Jeremy rocks. I would love to have direct access to updates within 
the installer as a *option*. I know regressions on updates would make 
this messy but the right solution is to avoid regressions anyway.

> 
>> You can talk to Jeremy in #fedora-devel Freenode IRC channel or mail 
>> katz at redhat.com (cc'ed) to discussion these things further.
> 
> Yep -- also, if you want me to review things, just let me know.
> 

Cool. Now if we get Pirut to work on media and nfs trees, Puplet by 
default, Pup with the Luke Macken's cool new UI and spicy notifications 
I am almost sold. Network manager by default would be even better but 
that maybe asking for too much ;-)

Rahul




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