We will soon be at FC4 and system-config-packages will stillfall short

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Thu Mar 24 07:54:48 UTC 2005


> I'd actually like to see that - I distribute a DVD that has a mirror of  
> the current updates repository on it for people who do a fresh install  
> and need to get the updates - it would be nice to offer it for CD based  
> people.
> 
> Of course, DVD-ROM are pretty cheap, at least in the US. I think ~  
> $20.00 or so at some places. But it would be nice to have CD/DVD  
> swapping to, like apt does (at least on Debian, I haven't tried apt on  
> anything else)
> 

The trick with removable media is not in the use of it, that's actually
not too bad, it's in making it so you're not swapping cds for every
other package. Ordering for media swapping is kinda painful unless
you're copying to a local cache.

-sv





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