Hello, On Mon, 22 Sep 2008, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Kapil Hari Paranjape <kapil <at> imsc.res.in> writes: > > I asked on #fedora (freenode) and was told that this is not a > > supported method of installing Fedora. As I can see from the > > documentation at www.fedoraproject.org --- it is indeed not! > > You don't get commercial support with Fedora anyway, so the method > being "unsupported" isn't really a problem. The question is whether > it works or not, "supported" stuff has a higher chance of working, > but if your "unsupported" method works, why not use it? By "supported" I meant that the Fedora developers are willing to discuss possible bugs in the process. ;-) In any case, as you said, the point is whether the process works. I did get a slightly buggy system by "xen-tools" and "rinse". The command "yum grouplist" was not giving any output. Whether this was due to "rinse" mis-behaving or because the mirrors were in the process of being updated is something I still have to figure out. The problem with "yum" was sorted out by: (a) downloading the "yum" and "yum-metadata-parser" packages (b) using rpm to erase the installed versions and (c) re-installing them. I seem to now have a working system with "Core" and "Base" installed and up-to-date. Three cheers for "rpm" and "yum" and Fedora! I also have a project which I want to implement in Fedora. To get some tool like "rinse" or "debootstrap" working under Fedora. That is, unless someone tells me that something very like it is already in the Fedora repository. Regards, Kapil. --
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