What ticked me off about FC6

Posted Nov 8, 2006 23:09 UTC (Wed) by yodermk (subscriber, #3803)
In reply to: What ticked me off about FC6 by rahulsundaram
Parent article: Fedora Core 6 review (Software In Review)

I saw that createrepo script but didn't feel it was worth messing with for one box.

I clicked "customize later" I believe. I figured I'd have the same opportunity to install stuff from local media after installation. It should be made more clear that you can't.

I can see that there would be a problem with Pirut using local media after a yum update -- there may be local packages that conflict with an update. But it should absolutely still be possible to do that before an update.

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What ticked me off about FC6

Posted Nov 9, 2006 0:14 UTC (Thu) by thebluesgnr (guest, #37963) [Link] (1 responses)

You could try creating symlinks between to the RPMS on the disc on the directory yum looks for packages - /var/cache/yum/core/packages/ if I remember correctly.

It sucks that yum still ignores CD's and DVD's, but it looks like it might be a planned feature for the next Fedora release. But I still wonder why Red Hat went with yum instead of the other more complete solutions.

What ticked me off about FC6

Posted Nov 9, 2006 0:36 UTC (Thu) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]

What would those complete solutions be? Apt-rpm was unmaintained at that time, written in complex amount of code and did not support multi lib. Now the situation there is much better and Apt-rpm has been revived to even support yum repository metadata format. Smart didnt exist or wasnt as well known when Fedora moved into using yum.

Yum was more of a natural replacement for up2date since it is in python (recent version of metadata parser in C) which Red Hat engineers are already very familiar with and and uses the same rpm bindings and has plugin capabilities to extend it further which is useful for prototyping things or RHN support.