We will soon be at FC4 and system-config-packages will stillfall short

[Michael A. Peters]

On 03/23/2005 11:35:51 PM, seth vidal wrote:
> > Problem is: yum does not know how to swap CDs so any front end will
> have
> > the same limitation.
> 
> Just out of curiosity, do you think not knowing how to swap CDs is
> some
> sort of permanent or unsolvable problem? Yum is not in a static  
> state,
> adding capabilities, especially to the module is something we're  
> doing
> all the time.

I'd actually like to see that - I distribute a DVD that has a mirror of  
the current updates repository on it for people who do a fresh install  
and need to get the updates - it would be nice to offer it for CD based  
people.

Of course, DVD-ROM are pretty cheap, at least in the US. I think ~  
$20.00 or so at some places. But it would be nice to have CD/DVD  
swapping to, like apt does (at least on Debian, I haven't tried apt on  
anything else)

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Michael A. Peters
http://mpeters.us/