[Rule-list] RULE + RH7.2 + UPDATES ?

[Jason Roysdon]

On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, Devon wrote:
> 
> Good news!
> I found the problem that was causing the installer to die when trying to 
> do a 3 disk install. I've just finished installing a minimal system from 
> the new installer. 
> 
<snip>
> 
> The iso will be at 
> http://webpages.charter.net/lmf62/RULE_installer-v0.6.2.iso
> 
> Patches will be at my own server:
> http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/rule/
> 
> - -D
> 

Very cool.  I can't wait to give it a go (and to think, I just burned ~0.95 
today and hadn't had a chance to give it a try).

Hey, speaking of updates, how hard would it be to make two different ISO
boot images?  One with the "bare minimum" and pulling solely from RH7.2
ISO/CDs.  Then the another with all the updates since RH7.2.  It seems silly
to copy 500+ MB worth of RPMs that only get replaced as soon as I finish an
install (granted, I know this project is bent on focusing on small installs,
but the point is also to have UPDATED software).  Since the CD is currently
weighing in at 95MB, and all the RPM updates right about 628MBs, probably a
seperate "update" ISO would make the most sense.

Actually the best thing all around would be an installer that didn't
necessarilly need to install everything a user wanted up front... but queued
the RPMs to install after the base OS/GUI install was done and then prompted
the user for an update CD if they wished.  To me, security is a must, and
I'd rather not be installing installing insecure software (and yes, I know
the plan is to lock down the boxes as much as possible and not include any
services/servers, but just clients), but still, a small speedy install with
minimal softare that is then followed up with the latest software seems to
be the nice route.

I think the biggest thing that I dislike about GnoRPM is that if I'm trying
to install upgrades and I need a dependancy (and I have it in the search
path), that it still aborts the whole thing, and I have to dig around and
find what it wants (whatever sub-branch it's under)... I've found myself
just using CLI RPM to solve this problem, but that's not very acceptable for
an end-user.  If I want to add "Y" and need "W" and "Z" and it's in the 
search path (IE, on my Update CD), then just install it.  Same would go for 
the initial install... if I give it an updated CD, install all the latest 
RPMs (of course that gets messy when an RPM that previously didn't have a 
dependancy on another RPM now does, hmm, like something that required 
Ghostscript which didn't previously that I ran into today).

Sorry for the ramble...  And good work Devon!

-- 
Jason Roysdon
jason at roysdon.net
http://jason.roysdon.net/






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