Bruno Wolff III wrote, On 07/19/2008 03:48 PM:
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 10:59:57 -0400,
Todd Denniston <Todd.Denniston@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Of course the alternative would include having a USB hard drive with a
mirror of fedora/linux/updates/9/<arch> on it, but that means you still
have to install the old package and then wait while the system figures
out how to update to the new package.
I believe that when you tell anaconda to use an additional repository it
doesn't install packages with updates twice. The extra time needed for
installing base+updates over base should be pretty small.
IIRC the last time I installed F8, which was months ago, and it asked about
additional repositories, it would not accept "/somepath" or
"file:///somepath", nor even an nfs server to mount from.
Probably has something to do with Jeremy Katz's _marginally_ founded fear of
and experience with incomplete repositories on local hard disks[1], but then
you know about that[2].
Or are you indicating you _have_ gotten anaconda to use an additional
repository that was on a local hard drive or NFS?
[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=435976#c2
[2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=435976#c5
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