On Thu, 2013-05-02 at 19:14 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Thu, 2013-05-02 at 21:50 -0400, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > On 05/02/2013 07:55 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > > > There's some newUI wrinkles there; for F18, the DVD media actually could > > > not supplement the install from online repos (pre-newUI this was always > > > possible). I think this is meant to be possible again in F19, but I > > > didn't get around yet to checking if it is, and if so, how it's > > > presented in UI terms. I don't *think* the package spoke has any code to > > > split up the groups by whether they're on the medium you're installing > > > from or not, but I could certainly be wrong. > > > > Without that split, it isn't really possible to make intelligent > > decisions about when to rely on the media and when to rely on network. > > Sure, as things stand (and stood in F17) we kinda assume that if you > enable the remote repos, you don't really mind too much whether any > particular thing you install comes from repos or media. > > > It would also be somewhat tricky if you want to be able to choose to get > > the updates for the packages in the media during installation itself. > > Well, more 'impossible' than 'tricky', at least as it was in oldUI. You > didn't get to choose; if there was an updated version in the repos, that > was what you got. I think it'll be the same in 19, but I haven't checked > yet. As is almost always the case, you have a lot more control over this in a kickstart install. With some obscure parameters to repo= , you can prioritize repos over other repos, and even specify that specific packages must come from particular repos. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
