On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 15:17 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 06/15/2009 03:09 PM, Ankur Sinha wrote: > > > > > from what I understand, this could replace the offline repos we make to > > use at install fests? > > Yes > > > I'm interested in contributing to this. Can you > > please tell me how to test it etc? > > You need Fedora 11 or Rawhide. The command line app is pkgenpack. > > If you prefer the GUI, > > # yum install gnome-packagekit-extra > > Go to Applications => System Tools => Service Pack Creator > > Select "Create an archive of a specific package" > > You can give one of more packages separated by commas. It will create a > <whateverpackagename.servicepack> and you can copy that to anybody > running Fedora 11, click on it and install it. The service packs are > merely tarballs with a package and its dependencies and a single > metadata.conf. You can extract it if needed with > > tar xvf foo.servicepack > > There are some bugs you might run into. I have reported some of them and > got a few fixed in Rawhide already. Test and send your feedback via > bugzilla or packagekit mailing list. > > Rahul > okay.. Ill do it when I have F11 on my system (still running 10).. thanks.. -- regards, Ankur -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list
