Package pruning for FC4 and beyond - COMPLETE LIST

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Tue Mar 1 15:56:57 UTC 2005


On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 08:36 -0600, Chris Adams wrote:
> Once upon a time, Rahul Sundaram <rahulsundaram at yahoo.co.in> said:
> > let me get this straight. if its called fedora core
> > and is in ISO images, its there and if its in fedora
> > extras as rpm packages, it goes away?
> 
> Hey, let's just put the kernel and a static shell on a CD; you can get
> the rest over the Internet!

Frankly speaking, that's close to I am using Fedora: All I'd need is a
CD sufficiently equipped to perform a "basic upgrade/install" and to
launch a "yum/apt network install".

Once the "network install" is up, it doesn't matter much in which
repository on the net the packages are located.

Ralf





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