Hi Erich: > Hmmm, you didn't rebuild python-twister. Is that not needed > in FC4? Is it > coming with the distro?
Yes it is: http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/4/i386/os/Fedora /RPMS/python-twisted-1.3.0-4.i386.rpm > I'm wondering why we don't simply _expect_ that users will > install yum on > distros which provide it? Then the command for FC4 would simply be > "yum update yum". > > Currently I use the /tftpboot/distro/*.url method a lot > (instead of copying in > all the RPMs). This will also be the preferred installation > method with > debian. Checking in all the yum RPMs for the distros which > already provide it > is a waste of space and will require us to maintain these > RPMs (what if bug > fixes are released? who will track this?). > > Adding intelligence to download necessary packages from a > mirrorlist .url > repository is almost equivalent to reprogram yum and I don't > like the idea at > all. Why can't we simply require that FC4 or SuSE users > install yum before > they go with OSCAR? And have yum-oscar around only for the > distros which don't > include any yum or use a very old version. > > The alternative would be to build yum-oscar for all distros, > which includes a > bunch of other RPMs: sqlite, python-sqlite, python-urlgrabber, > python-elemnttree. I hate this idea, too... > > BTW: In debian you can expect that apt-get is already around. I'm fine with this in principle, but do we need to deal with the situation where the user installing the software does not have access to the Internet (during installation time)? I know this situation arises for folks at Intel when they are doing internal testing, etc. Anyways, this needs to be dealt with inorder for us to support Fedora Core 4 - we should probably add the command "yum update yum" in our system somewhere so that it is executed automatically... Cheers, Bernard _______________________________________________ Oscar-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-devel
