On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 04:43:38AM +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Muayyad AlSadi wrote: > > I filed RFE bugs claiming that in fedora we have no way to use the DVD as > > a repo including PK, yum cli,yumex, apt-get, smart, ... > > I tried all the tools and non can add a DVD as a media repo > > Note that this is of only very limited usefulness because packages often > have updates available anyway. So unless you're proposing to ignore the > updates entirely and just install old stuff (a bad idea), the packages used > from the DVD will be just a portion which gets smaller and smaller as > updates get released. For example, all of KDE (which is fairly large) > already had updates available in F11 updates weeks before F11 even got > released. As was mentioned earlier in this thread, I think it *does* make sense to install the older packages from DVD because then you can take advantage of yum-presto to save on download bandwidth later when you update from the network. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
