Re: Linux without Internet

On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 12:45 AM, James Antill <[email protected]> wrote:

> narendra sisodiya <[email protected]> writes:
>
> > Hello All.
> >     This is my first mail, and I want to know your feeback on this.
> > I want to have something for Linux user which do not have Internet
> > connection at home or neighbor,
> > Instead of internet repo , You can do something different.
> > Instead of small small rpm, we separate them into some big chunk of
> bundle
> > with added configuration, which can be interdependently install on a
> system
> > without getting any dependency error
>
>  There where a couple of attempts to do this already, but it's a giant
> fail IMO. You are doing the depsolving on the server side, and hoping
> the client matches it which is the wrong way around.
>
>  What you want to do is something more like yum-plugin-tmprepo, IMO.
>
> > For this we can start form LSB (linux standard base) and make bundle of
> rpm
> > which are small small (`~~100 MB ) repository for single big software
> like
> > (Xdisplay , open office , FireFox etc) with all added dependency's on it.
> So
> > this will be much like distributing software specific small repo bundle
> > which can be directly installed without worrying about any dependency's
> and
> > somewhat similar to installing exe files. (Just click and set the path of
> > installation)
> >
> > However this approach will generate a lot of redundancy in term of space,
> > But who cares, a 2GB software will take 10 GB or 20 GB but it will become
> a
> > distributable unit.
>
>  Right, what's an extra 8-18GB between friends?:)
>
There are many dependencies which can reside in many bundles,


>
> > This sort of packaging is possible so that /media/software drive will
> become
> > transferable/shareable unit to share software,
>
>  There are lots of ways to solve this, sticking everything in one
> opaque object is not the right solution.
>  Indeed the Fedora CD/DVDs have support for being used from yum
> already, which while not perfect is a much better place to start.
>
My main aim is to have some solution for those which do not have internet..
and cannot install/update new softwares...
IMHO, there should be one click install method to do so,... I do not know
the way to do it,,. This is just a approach,,



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