Robert Spangler wrote:
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Hi all,
I was just wondering if there are and install packages out there like the new Debian Install? I find this approach to be the most optimal since you are always installing the latest version of the software.
If there isn't any, are there any plans in the works to get something like this setup?
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Regards Robert
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This is really a nice idea... I'd add to this idea some annotations:
It'd be incredibly awesome to make Anaconda use some modified version of yum or up2date, after transfering the installation image into the target computer. I think the best way would be to leave the installer pretty much the same as it is now, and just add a little check box at the install type/package selection screens to check for updates of the selected packages, then when the installation process really starts, and after transfering the image (with basic rpm, yum/up2date tools) to the disk, yum may check for updates of the selected packages and then internally mark them to be downloaded and installed from one of the mirror sites, while still installing the rest of the packages off the CD rom (lets face it, NOT all the packages in the CD's have been updated!). I see a couple downsides to this approach, though:
1) As pointed out, the bandwidth requirements... Not everybody has broad-band, and even among broadband users there are circumstances where this is simply not quite justifiable, like cases where the total bandwidth is only 128k to 256k downstream... At times even a 512k downstream connection seems VERY slow nowadays!
2) The overhead of RPM interdependency solving may really slow things down, especially for lower-end machines.
3) The memory foot-print of the installer may be too large to be practical to implement this way (thus my proposal of using an on disk image for this). Sounds like a good idea, but may be too hard to implement and even unjustified... Last time I tried to use rpm from a chroot'ed environment I wasn't too successful so this may be perfectly done, just I don't know how.
Another idea (as already pointed out) would be to have a LiveCD install only which would only download and install the packages to the chroot'ed disk environment, without installing packages from the CD, this would require a QUITE fast connection (something in the order of 6Mbits/s)
