Re: we need a way to install packages from installation media

On Mon, 2008-09-08 at 20:40 +0200, Tim Lauridsen wrote:
> 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.
> 

+1

-sv