Install additional software from Install Media
Quasar Jarosz
quasar at ja.rosz.org
Sat Apr 26 15:08:20 UTC 2008
On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 9:01 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan
<pocallaghan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 2008-04-26 at 08:21 -0500, Quasar Jarosz wrote:
> > > I'll take the liberty of quoting myself from an earlier thread:
> > >
> > > # cat /etc/yum.repos.d/local.repo
> > > [localrepo]
> > > name=Fedora Local Repo
> > > failovermethod=priority
> > > baseurl=file:///Repo
> > > enabled=1
> > > #
> > >
> > > You need to create the Repo directory, containing Packages [from the
> > > DVD], and the repodata folder (from the DVD) in it.
> > >
> >
> > This is quite a hassle. Do we consider this a feature that's not
> > needed enough to make it easier?
>
> I've no idea what the rationale is, or indeed if there is any. I
> remember when I installed the first Fedora version that allowed you to
> postpone package selection (F7?) being completely bummed out that the
> GUI tool couldn't automatically look for stuff on the install DVD.
> Baldly telling the user he can do something now or later, without
> explaining that 'later' is going to mean either downloading stuff he
> already has, or Googling to find out how to hand-edit his yum
> configuration, is another example of where Anaconda needs some attention
> IMHO.
I agree - that's basically what i was looking at. I chose not to
install certain features to see how well it would work to install them
later, and in fact it can't at all..
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