From your comments, am I to assume that before FC6 is finished that
the further work and the bugs will be solved that allow yum to work
form a set of CDs and not the file or internet connection as
presently required?
If you are say that the now such assumption that everyone would have
an internet connection why was the change made that by default adding
and subtracting package would require an internet connection?
At 08:14 AM 6/28/2006, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
thingsmith@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
A couple of things.
I did not say that yum sucks. In fact, I like yum. Since I have
learned how to do this I have set up my own private repository and
am using a variant to do configuration management for my server farms.
What I am commenting on is the assumption made in FC5 that every
one by default is connected to broadband internet connections.
There is no such assumption being made. There is further work needed
in Pirut and Yum to support media and there wasnt enough time for
completing this in FC5 timeframe.
I would not like to see this assumption carried forward to
FC6. Internet access statistic do not support this as one that
support that vast majority of users. In fact, this does not even
support the majority of the users.
On the FC6 page, one of the considerations is to have Anaconda
back-ended by yum and I know that yum can only work to respository
such as web sites or directories, I am curious to understand how
this modification will work.
You are assuming that Anaconda would require a internet connection
just because it uses yum's dependency logic mechanism which is not true.
As for a specifc complaint, my compliant is the basic assumption
that every who installs FC has broadband access to the
internet. The information that I have seen show that in 2003 of
the 105 M homes with internet access only 33 M had broadband.
Again there is no such assumption.
So beside my case where I do not have any external internet
acces, I have seen similar comments on the bug reports about
people who only have dial-up having to do multiple yum
configuration files to overcome the assumption.
You might want to take a look at
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=188750.
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