The updates firehose

Simon Andrews simon.andrews at bbsrc.ac.uk
Mon Jun 11 10:15:15 UTC 2007


orion at cora.nwra.com wrote:
>> Christopher Blizzard wrote:
>>
>>> Are people complaining?
>> I don't complain when it happens with my own computer that's
>> being updated daily... but it's painful when you update a
>> dozen of desktops in the office to F7 and all them want to
>> download 500MB worth of updates the first time they boot.
>>
>> Yes, I could use a local Fedora mirror.  And, in fact,
>> I do.  But then I'd have to customize the yum config on
>> all clients to go look there.
>>
> 
> Add the updates repo at upgrade/install time.

Is this currently possible?  I've just upgraded a load of servers from 
FC6 to F7 and saw no option to add in extra repositories.  This was a 
text based nfs upgrade.

I remember hearing that including extra repository support in anaconda 
was slated for F7, but is this installs only?

Simon.




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