yum image updates?

[Martin Langhoff]

On 9/15/06, Dan Williams <dcbw at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-09-14 at 23:25 +1200, Martin Langhoff wrote:
> > [Report: BIOS Flashed and running successfully off a USB HD with image-81. Yay!]
> There's an olpc-specific repo here, which the build process pulls from.
> These are packages that are either (1) specific to OLPC, or (2) must be
> modified from stock fedora, like the kernel.
>
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/projects/olpc/development/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/

That's great!

> > Or can I just deploy the fat RPMs from a full blown rawhide?
>
> You most certainly can.  If you've got the '-devel' images (which have
> the rpm database) you can just 'yum install foobar' and if it's in
> Fedora Core or Fedora Extras, it'll be able to be installed.  Be aware
> that you only have 512MB of space though, so things will get tight quite
> quickly [1].

Thanks! Yes, I do plan on using more of my drive, either via resizing
or mounting bits of the fs.

> In the end, the images are pulled from a few repos, namely Fedora Core,
> Fedora Extras, and the OLPC repo above.

Excellent.


martin