Re: Adding programs

[shane stixrud org]

On Fri, 19 Nov 2004, John Haxby wrote:

> Having said that, the system-config-packages thing should work -- it has a 
> parameter to point it to a directory full of ISO images (--isodir).   That 
> isn't your only choice though.   system-config-packages is a bit limited 
> though for my liking.   My preferred solution, at least the last time I did 
> it, was to mount the ISO images (using -o loop) and create a yum archive. 
> up2date knows about yum archives but I don't recall whether it preferred RHN 
> or yum for local packages -- I installed a version of yum as well.

Personally I wish they would add the ability to grab packages via a HTTP 
URL.  ISO and NFS are all well and good, but adding HTTP would be much 
cleaner in my opinion.

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