I recently installed FC6 on my Dell laptop. After several days, my system tells me that there are 230+ FC6 updates that are waiting to be installed on my system. From previous experience, I know that this upgrading process will take many hours, possibly days, involving megabytes of downloads via my slow 384kbit/s SmartBro connection. So instead of installing those updates, I decided to make a new FC6 install DVD that already includes those updates, by following Rob Garth's suggestions for FC5:
http://www.users.on.net/~rgarth/weblog/fedora/patch_cd.autumn Of particular interest is Simone Caronni 's update.sh script in which he gives step-by-step details on how to create this new FC install DVD. Following the instructions in this script, I copied the entire FC6 install DVD to a new DVDbuild directory on disk, replaced (manually) the rpms in Fedora/RPMS with the very latest versions from the FC6 update website site (several hours of download), then gave other commands as specified by Caronni: pkgorder buildinstall remove all occurrences of TRANS.TBL in all directories mkisofs implantisomd5 These commands assume that you have installed yum-utils, anaconda, and anaconda-runtime, plus their prerequisites. The newly produced iso file can now be burned to a DVD. Of course the entire process took many hours of my weekend. Now comes the acid test: I booted with the DVD in the drive, and it gave me the usual FC6 installation screens, up to the point that anaconda is called, and the process that loads anaconda breaks for failure to find the libbdevid.so shared library. So /usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/buildinstall is buggy when used to create a FC6 install DVD. Someone needs to fix it. I tried reading the python script, but it is too complicated for me? Anyone knows a fix? Thanks. P~Manalastas
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