On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 05:32:50PM -0700, Barry K. Nathan wrote: > FWIW, the way that Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 handles Extras > (closed-source stuff in that case) is to have the option of installing > from the Extras CD (or Documentation CD's for that matter) in firstboot. > In fact, the generic button for installing more packages from another CD > is also present in firstboot in Fedora Core 2 and fc-devel (although the > Extras and Documentation buttons aren't). That would make it hard to integrate those packages into a kickstart upgrade/install. > I can see how it might be better to handle Extras in anaconda for the > sake of cleaner upgrades, but perhaps the RHEL method is still worth > mentioning in this thread... I'll just point to what I said on this subject before. :-) http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2004-June/msg00267.html Steve -- Steven Pritchard - K&S Pritchard Enterprises, Inc. Email: steve@xxxxxxxxx http://www.kspei.com/ Phone: (618)398-7360 Mobile: (618)567-7320
