Re: rpmfusion based spin
Andreas Thienemann wrote:
On Fri, 29 Aug 2008, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
> Just curious, how would the genuine Fedora DVD or CD set know about the
> extra media during the installation? Of course additional media is
> useful *after* the initial installation where people can point a repo to
> the media:// url, possibly that .repo file could even be included in the
> rpmfusion-release package.
It wouldn't, if I'm reading this correctly.
You're right, I'm unable to think of a way that would currently work. It
could be done, but it'd reintroduce the "Do you want to use any
additional media (...)" dialog in anaconda and would only appear *after*
the initial installation is done already.
You install your fedora whatever, pop the matching livna cd into the
drive, autostart crap does it's thing and some gtk frontend comes up,
showing a nice little animal saying "It seems you want to install some
additional 3rd party software. Do you want mp3, dvd or divx support? Or do
you want your nvidia card to work?".
Instead, I'd just recreate the Fedora released media to include the
RPMFusion Free/Non-Free additional repositories (with a product.img) and
be done with it (of course, rebrand the lot).
If the livna-assistant sounds overblown, a small gtk installer might
do
it's thing as well, could even be scripted with the
dialog-de-jour-pour-x11 or whatever it's called today. Timidity or so was
it the last time I looked.
Really, if a GUI is going to pop up on inserting some media with
software, PackageKit should be the one taking it on.
Personally speaking:_WHY_ we'd need such a cd however is beyond
me, I
haven't touched a CD or DVD in years. PXE does that to you....
It's a good thing everyone has PXE at home these days ;-)
Kind regards,
Jeroen van Meeuwen
-kanarip