Jeremy Katz wrote:
On Tuesday, December 02 2008, Seth Vidal said:
On Tue, 2 Dec 2008, Jeremy Katz wrote:
On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 06:20 -0600, David Hagood wrote:
I've noticed that there is a Zeroconf service description for apt
servers. Perhaps a similar definition should be made for Fedora, such
that the network install can search for local install servers via
Zeroconf.
It's come up from time to time and there are even a couple of partial
implementations. The key is to work on it and really get it integrated
into yum; we're not going to invent something that's used only for
anaconda
there was a plugin for that someone wrote. I think I'd be more enamored
of the idea if someone could give me a couple of good examples of where
avahi was used for something that was needed to be up for any amount of time
and wasn't just ad-hoc and 'hopeful'.
Part of it, though, is that one of the points is for more ad-hoc things.
It would be helpful for the person who keeps a local mirror using
something like reposync and doesn't have any sort of static, public IP
address. Then instead of using the mirror returned by MirrorManager,
you'd get the very very local mirror. Also, it's nice for things like
an installfest where you might not even have a public network
connection[1].
If I were hosting an installfest, I'd set up a server running Fedora or
CentOS (or equivalent) on a laptop, set up PXE for those who can network
boot, hand out CDs for those who cannot.
It's close to what I wanted to do yesterday, a mass-install of Linux on
computers being given away.
Fedora was my second choice, they ended up with opensuse. Time was short.
Cheers
John
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