rpmfusion based spin

[Jeroen van Meeuwen]

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