FC5T2 ready for even a test release?

Nils Philippsen nphilipp at redhat.com
Thu Jan 26 14:33:16 UTC 2006


On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 15:54 +0000, Tony Molloy wrote:

> Now we could do a "yum install --exclude*debug* \*" after the initial 
> install to get the remaining packages, but that requires several Gb of 
> space on the /var/cache partition which is a waste.

You can work around that by putting the packages on a local NFS server,
use a file:///... baseurl for the base repo and the packages won't get
copied to /var/cache. You'd be putting the yum line in a script anyway,
so this is only an added 2 or 3 lines.

Nils
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