What ticked me off about FC6 [LWN.net]

What ticked me off about FC6

Posted Nov 8, 2006 21:49 UTC (Wed) by dowdle (subscriber, #659)
In reply to: What ticked me off about FC6 by yodermk
Parent article: Fedora Core 6 review (Software In Review)

I'm not sure why you think you can't install KDE from the install. Worked for me.

Getting rid of install everything... and Pirut not doing local media... again... aren't bugs but features... as are recent statements about Fedora skipping Firefox 2.x and waiting for Firefox 3.x instead. You might not agree with them... but that's how it is.

I doubt you are interested now but here's how I make FC easy to update and install anything. It takes a bit of disk space but I feed several machines so it is worth it:

1) Make your own base and extras repo. Basically, copy all of the RPMs from the install DVD to a web accessible directory and then run createrepo. Download all updates to a directory, run createrepo. Download all extras to a directory, run createrepo.

2) Make a script to keep your updates and extras repos updated... it can be as simple as using wget but there are other tools I've not investigated for that. Add a third-party multimedia repo... and create your own "addons" repo with acrobat reader, sun jdk, flash... etc... if desired.

3) Make your own .repo and move the stock ones to /etc/yum.reposd/factory

Now you can install anything on the local machine lightning fast... and you can also install everything over the LAN almost as fast. I think the complaints people have about YUM being slow are related to the mirroring system and having overloaded mirrors. yum flies when everything is either local or LAN based. Running your own repos you can even exclude certain updates if desired.

Granted, that's a lot of disk space and a lot of bandwidth to keep those repos current... but if you have a small fleet of machines, it is well worth it and fairly simple to do.

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