Fedora 21 Installation source - cannot select a update source

[Adam Williamson]

On Tue, 2014-11-25 at 14:37 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> Granted there are no updates at this time, but...
> 
> Using the Server Netinst x86_64 TC4, when I select my local repo, the 
> option to select a local update repo is greyed out.

That's not exactly what that option is, it's an option to choose whether
to use the updates repo when using the default configuration - since you
don't have direct control over the actual repositories selected in that
case, instead there's a checkbox.

>   This was the case 
> in F20, but somehow I thought this was going to be improved in F21.
> 
> How would one install with current updates, after release, from a local 
> repo?

Configure them as 'additional repositories' in the box at the bottom of
the window.

It occurs to me that the current state of that window has come together
rather piecemeal and we could maybe take a look and see if the way
things actually work could be clarified a bit.

Basically if you use the 'closest mirror' option - the default -
anaconda decides the base repository based on the product name, in
practice at present for a Fedora install it will always pick fedora.repo
as the base repo, and then it uses any other valid repository
configuration as an 'additional repository' (to use the GUI's
vocabulary). But it doesn't actually *display* these repositories in the
GUI. The checkbox is a kind of special-case control that, in this
configuration, disables the additional repositories named
updates-testing and updates.

When you're not using 'closest mirror' all the actual repositories are
on display and directly configurable - you specify the base repo in the
top part of the window, and the additional repositories in the bottom
part - so the checkbox becomes redundant; just specify the actual
repositories you want to use.

Perhaps it would be viable to actually display the additional repos for
the 'closest mirror' case in the GUI rather than have the checkbox.
IIRC, in the early versions of newUI, the 'additional repositories' UI
wasn't written yet, so this wasn't a possibility.
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