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Karanbir Singh <[log in to unmask]>
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Karanbir Singh <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 18 Jan 2006 14:47:43 +0000
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Troy Dawson wrote:
> Art Wildman wrote:
> 
>> Freshrpms package compilation
>> http://lists.freshrpms.net/pipermail/freshrpms-list/2006-January/013758.html 
>>
>>
>> A very cool Xmas gift from Mathias, while it may not be suitable for 
>> production SL users, home & laptop users could certainly benefit from 
>> the extra multimedia packages on the cd. When building systems having 
>> some extra packages available on CD before putting it on the net 
>> always appeals to me for security concerns. I haven't tried it yet... 
>> Thoughts?
> 
> 
> Hi Art,
> The problem is that not all fedora stuff works on S.L.  (or RHEL for 
> that matter), and I believe Mathias doesn't do RHEL compatible.
> But if someone put together a atrpms, dag, or dries CD like that, that 
> would be interesting.
> Troy

hi Troy,

I feel these repo's are way too fast moving to really be able to 
snapshot in a manner that would allow for such DVD's [1] to be created.

- KB

[1] these repo's are going to be way too large to get onto a CD, might 
need to target DVD size media.

-- 
Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219@icq

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