Re: loader/stage2 interaction

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Chris Lumens wrote:
And booting from the full DVD or disc1 and adding askmethod is just
weird, man.
Why? Can't you pull updated packages during install?

Yes, I suppose you could do that.  However, you're going to end up
getting all the packages from whatever source you entered for askmethod,
not just the updated ones.  Not sure if that's what you intended to do
or not.

At least one of us two is confused.

Whatever is specified for askmethod, one should have the option to install only the latest of each package. Preferably, one would be able to specify (at least) two sources of packages, the base which has a version of each and every official package, a source of the latest packages (this might be a local mirror, and it might be a controlled - for local QA purposes - mirror).

In kickstart terms, I can imagine a succession of repo statements identifying where repos should be found; all would, by definition, be enabled and ideally all would be configured so after installation.

  repo url= [proxy=]
and/or, to get a tarball suitable for /etc/yum.repos.d
  repo list=

In interactive installs, users would have a table. To save typing, blank entries in the host field would imply "ditto."

Packages could come from any number of sources, including non-standard repos and their respective updates.


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Cheers
John

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