Bug 145733

Summary:	No way to point installer to alternate location for package dependencies
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	John J. Germs <johngee>
Component:	system-config-packages	Assignee:	Jeremy Katz <katzj>
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Description John J. Germs 2005-01-20 22:46:24 UTC

Description of problem: When presented with the message:
"Fedora Core 3" disk needed to install packages
Insert the disk and press OK.

There is no way to point it to an alternate location.
(i.e. files on the hard drive, mounted iso image, http, ftp, etc.)

Since Fedora provides the boot.iso to perform alternate methods of
installation the system-install-packages should provide the
corresponding alternate methods of package retrieval.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install Fedora using one of the alternate methods (i.e. http install)
2. Install an rpm that requires extra software packages

3. Attempt to point the installer to the http install point
  
Actual results:
  End up hitting cancel and then not know which package was needed.
Receive errors when attempting to run the program then try to
determine wwhat package is missing. Most times the best way afterwards
is uninstall the package then try reinstalling via the command prompt.

  Ultimately the installer should not have allowed an incomplete
installation. Cancel should be Abort which would uninstall the package
that could not obtain the dependencies because no Fedora disc was found.


Expected results:

The interface should present alternate methods of retrieving the
neccessary packages.

Additional info:

Since Fedora provides a boot.iso to perform alternate methods of
installation the system-install-packages should provide the
corresponding alternate methods of package retrieval.

Comment 1 Mike MacCana 2005-04-07 02:24:44 UTC

s-c-p supports using a directory to get packages from.

Copy all the files (including the hidden ones) from the CD to /path/to/files

system-install-packages --tree=/path/to/files

However, this...
- needs to be documented in a man page, rather than --help
- needs to be configurable from within the program (GUI apps tend not to
launched from the CLI)
c) does not include other sources up2date can use, like dir and yum repositories.

So leaving open.

Comment 2 Jeremy Katz 2005-09-21 19:57:09 UTC

The options are intentionally not very documented for s-c-p due to lack of
testing.  The next generation tool which will be landing in Fedora Core 5 will
be far more flexible for things like this