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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