Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 117106
Have Add/Remove programs fetch packages from internet
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:37 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040217 Description of problem: Presently, Add/Remove programs requires that you enter one of the installation CDs to add a program after the initial installation of Fedora. It would be GREAT if there was the option of installing the packages from a Fedora Repository on the internet. This would make it so that you would not have to insert a CD, and would be installing the latest version of a package (instead of whatever shipped with the CD. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Add a program in Add/Remove Programs 2. 3. Actual Results: Fedora asks to have a CD inserted Expected Results: Option for having the internet be a package source. Additional info:
I had initially filed this RFE just hoping that redhat-config-packages would install the latest version of packages available in the fedora stable repositories, instead of installing a version only as up to date as the CD it came on. I would like to enhance my request to have redhat-config-packages able to install from the Fedora.us repository. They have some great packages (namely firefox and thunderbird) that are not available in the general install of FC2.
This would be a nice feature on this component across the board - especially in FC1 as well
is this forum not being used anymore?? no comments from fedora/redhat folks
Fedora Core 2 is now maintained by the Fedora Legacy project for security updates only. If this problem is a security issue, please reopen and reassign to the Fedora Legacy product. If it is not a security issue and hasn't been resolved in the current FC3 updates or in the FC4 test release, reopen and change the version to match.
This report is filed against a product which is no longer supported. It is very likely that the problem is resolved in the current version of Fedora Core or scheduled to be resolved with the new system-config-packages scheduled to land in Fedora Core 5.