Anaconda: good work!

David Cantrell dcantrell at redhat.com
Thu Mar 23 15:46:48 UTC 2006


Hans Kristian Rosbach wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 11:45 -0500, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 10:12 -0500, Dimi Paun wrote:
> > > First impression: anaconda really rocks! This is a
> > > very solid, pleasant installer.
> > 
> > Thanks -- always nice to see people not just flaming us :-P
> 
> *snip*
> 
> I have to agree that the new installer is very nice.
> But despite this I really wish you will apply some bugfixes
> to anaconda and release it in updates. This of course does
> not help with FC5, but it will help those who use anaconda
> to make new distros or respins such as I plan to do (either
> official or unofficial).
> 
> The complete lack of updates to anaconda in FC4 bugged me,
> but I was too late in the cycle to make you reconsider.
> This time around I hope you will atleast take obvious
> bugfixes and maintain the FC5 anaconda atleast for a
> little while. I'm not asking for new features, only fixes.

If you're using anaconda in projects, it's probably worth following what
happens in rawhide.  New anaconda packages make it there all the time.

-- 
David Cantrell
Red Hat / Westford, MA




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