18 Alpha TC3 DVD defaulting to networked install

[Timothy Davis]

On Fri, 2012-08-17 at 12:13 +0000, Andre Robatino wrote:
> The 18 Alpha TC3 DVD appears to default to a networked install (meaning it uses
> packages from the updates repos when they are newer than the ones on the DVD). I
> noticed this when choosing the GNOME Desktop and nothing else, and ended up
> getting "Software Selection" errors. Clicking on "Error checking software
> dependencies. Click for details." gives
> 
> 1:control-center-3.5.5-2.fc18.x86 64 requires libgnome-bluetooth.so.10()(64bit)
> shotwell-0.12.3-1.fc18.x86_64 requires libgphoto2_port.so.0()(64bit)
> 
> even though shotwell is not even on the DVD and the repoclosure problem with
> control-center was fixed on the TC3 DVD. I looked under "Installation Source"
> and there is a box "Don't install the latest available software updates. Install
> the default versions provided by the install source above." which is unchecked
> by default. I checked the box, but still get the same errors, so it's not
> working. Aside from that, I'm not happy with the default of a networked install
> in that
> 
> 1) It's less reliable than a non-networked install because of problems like the
> one above (assuming the DVD itself has no repoclosure or file conflicts
> problems), and
> 
> 2) It means higher bandwidth use, since the default is to download updated
> packages in full, rather than installing the old version from the DVD and then
> saving bandwidth by downloading the updated version with yum-presto.
> 
> 
I think if you setup network devices before package selection it won't
try to use networking during install.