On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 02:47:43PM +0000, Karanbir Singh wrote: > 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. If this is coordinated with the repos it's possible, I guess. There already was a FC1 & updates & ATrpms DVD by Stefan Smietanowski in the past, but the echo wasn't as high as expected. > - KB > > [1] these repo's are going to be way too large to get onto a CD, might > need to target DVD size media. Or you can create add-on CDs with topics, e.g. cluster-CD, syadmin-CD, multimedia-CD and similar. -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net