Hi Matt,

On 05/14/2011 07:44 AM, Matthew Chan wrote:
[log in to unmask]" type="cite"> Hi,

I found out that the SL6 livecd installs some packages which aren't available in the repos. This is causing some conflicts with EPEL.

Do you have to solve these conflicts manually? Or is "yum update" good enough.

[log in to unmask]" type="cite">Was this a design decision?

I would say more a "personal preference".
 
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The packages which I ran into were
- fuse-sshfs
- iperf
- testdisk
- openvpn
- ntfsprogs


As already mention by William. The complete list of added software can be found here: http://www.livecd.ethz.ch/software.html
[log in to unmask]" type="cite">I am using yum-protectbase, but epel is upgrading these packages anyways since they do not show up in the sl or sl-update repos.

They all seem to be marked from the 'extras' repo.

That's right. The "extra" repo can be found here: http://www.livecd.ethz.ch/download/extra/. However, at the moment I just will update this repo when building a new LiveCD release.

Concerning the next SL 6.1 LiveCD release, I would be really interested in some user feedback and opinion about which "extra" software should be added to the LiveCD. With extra software I mean software that is not part of the standard SL repos.

The most conservative approach would be to add nothing.
Personally, I like to have some rescue tools (ddrescue, testdisk, ntfs-3g, gparted, ...) and a browser with a working flash-plugin on the LiveCD.


Cheers,

    Urs