On Mon, 24 May 2004 14:38:14 +0100, Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > With extras in place, we can migrate many of/all the non-essential apps > there. Another area that may need improvements would be package > installation. Whilst up2date / yum / system-config-packages are > improving over time, people (including myself) still have various gripes > over what these packages do (or don't do) in various situations. <rant> One situation that comes up repeatedly in #fedora you do a desktop install which installs foo-1.1 package you get the online update for foo-1.2 you using system-config-packages to install foo-server-1.1 from cd...but it won't install becuase there is a dependancy foo-1.1 and you have foo-1.2 installed. since system-config-packages is not network aware yer screwed...you have to use up2date or yum via the commandline to do the foo-server install from the network. </rant> > > I'd really like to see us get to the stage where an install just > installs a bare-bones system[1], and after booting, firstboot runs > system-config-packages to pull in anything else we desire. > Moving the bulk of the package selection out of the installer. > I think I recall Jeremy being quite enthusiastic about this too > at various points in time, so who knows.. it could happen 8) This makes sense for fresh installs....but anaconda managed upgrades...man oh man thats going to suck a lot. Multi-staged installs make sense...but anaconda based upgrades...not so obvious that its going to be able to do it in a way where you are risking some rather nasty rpmdb inconsistancies. And having to require network connectivity to do upgrades to get around this issue, well thats not so cool in some situations. -jef
