Fedora 12 RC-3

Gene Czarcinski gene at czarc.net
Sun Nov 8 18:36:33 UTC 2009


On Sunday 08 November 2009 09:16:57 Vedran Miletić wrote:
> > One thing I noticed that tells me that RC-3 is not the final release
> > version is that when I did the install from a physical DVD, there was no
> > install-time option to add an "updates" repository and/or a base
> > repository.  Thus, I did not have the option to install packages not on
> > the DVD itself.  I have found the ability to install with updates and
> > with an everything repository (really the same as rawhide/development at
> > this point) to be very useful.
> >
> > Has this "feature" been dropped or is this simply a characteristic of the
> > fact I am using the RC-3 DVD?
> 
> Repositories are not yet ready, that's the reason why it's not available.
> 

I understand that the real repositories are not ready yet but the yum repo 
files point to mirros which have been "faked up" top point fedora and updates 
to development (rawhide).  I was surprised that this was not done with RC-3 
also.  I am not sure not anaconda is setup and if it is looking for the 
repositories dynamically or not but I assume that it uses the same mirror 
lists that yum uses.  Therefore, I expected to see "fedora" and "updates" 
listed as network-accessible repositories even if they both point to 
(ultimately) development ... just like yum repo files.

Gene




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