[Yum] we need a way to install packages from installation media

Tim Lauridsen tim.lauridsen at googlemail.com
Mon Sep 8 18:40:55 UTC 2008


Muayyad AlSadi wrote:
> Hi,
> in continuation to our IRC talk
> 
> like all other package managers yum (the command line tool) need a way
> to add installation media CD/DVD
> 
> I know that the python API supports that
> but fedora 9 users have no way to make use of that as there is no
> single tool that implement it
> (pirut was removed from F9, yumex don't have it, PK api does not
> support it ...etc)
> 
> so at least we need the yum command line tool to support it
> 
> something like
> yum addmedia
> 
> which will copy media.repo and do the cache
> 
> and yum's __init__.py should have a call like this
> http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=hosted/pirut.git;a=blob;f=pirut/__init__.py;h=24b87789429d664eab61bf8b79b9f91a5b270bb8;hb=HEAD#l151
> 
> to ask the user to insert the media
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I think it should be added to yumex, but never got around to do that yet 
and it should be added to PK too, but i don't think it fits very well 
into yum-cli asking for changing cd and actions like that a little 
strange to me.

Tim



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