FC4 state of affairs and FC5
Peter Jones
pjones at redhat.com
Wed Sep 7 17:23:44 UTC 2005
On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 13:06 -0400, Michael Wiktowy wrote:
> Paul A Houle wrote:
>
> > It would be nice if someone respun Fedora with the latest rpms
> > every month, every week, whatever. It's probably not that hard to
> > do -- I guess it's just a matter of setting up your directories for
> > spinning a distribution, and putting in the latest RPM directory from
> > the mirror sites, right? And, of course, testing it to make sure
> > that it all works through firstboot.
>
> Aren't many of the problems that this is designed to circumvent going to
> be solved with anaconda becoming aware of extras and updates during install?
That won't happen for FC5 -- this time around we're revamping the
internal package handling code to use yum, with the aim of making it
*possible* to do something like this. But the actual support for
non-Core repos in the installer probably won't be until at least FC6.
(There are quite a few other changes for FC5 as well, of course)
--
Peter
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