On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 5:52 AM, Urs Beyerle
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Hi Matt,
On 05/14/2011 07:44 AM, Matthew Chan wrote:
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.
Was this a design decision?
I would say more a "personal preference".
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
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