Brent L. Bates wrote:
>      The installer will not look in the contrib directories?  Ok.  Could I as
> part of my combining the CD's into a single DVD process, move the XFS RPM's
> out of the contrib area and into the main stream directories?  Or perhaps,
> with the DVD I've already burned, do some kind of shell escape out of the
> install GUI and install them from there?  People want XFS and we really don't
> care about the top level vendors prejudices.  I'm willing to work with the SL
> people to get a more reasonable solution to this on going problem.

This isn't a "top level vendors prejudices"
This is a Scientific Linux Developers prejudices.
"People want XFS" until they start loosing critical data.  Trust me, it's 
happened here.  They scream for it and scream for it, and then scream at you 
when it corrupts stuff and somehow it's all become my fault.

You can do all sorts of stuff in the %post install scripts, including install 
stuff from the contrib area.  You are only limited by your imagination.

Troy
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