Bug 12441 - feature request work around missing original DVD adding packages
Summary: feature request work around missing original DVD adding packages
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 102
Alias: None
Product: Mageia
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Release (media or process) (show other bugs)
Version: Cauldron
Hardware: All Linux
Priority: Normal enhancement
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Mageia Bug Squad
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Reported: 2014-01-26 13:44 CET by Tony Blackwell
Modified: 2014-03-15 21:49 CET (History)
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Description Tony Blackwell 2014-01-26 13:44:20 CET
Description of problem:

Many times when installing something it asks for the original DVD.  If this is lost/overwritten etc then the package installation fails.

It would be much more useful it the popup gave an option to get everything over the Net (it's going to be getting much of the new package over the Net anyway); avoids shuffling through packs of DVD's to find _that_ one needed.

This has been behavior forever - could we re-visit it?


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Comment 1 Thierry Vignaud 2014-01-26 18:29:33 CET
(Wrong package.)

That would mean:
- adding online repositories (_before_ the local ones)
- checking it succeeded
- redoing the deps resolving

CC: (none) => sysadmin-bugs, thierry.vignaud
Component: Installer => Release (media or process)
Source RPM: (none) => urpmi

Comment 2 Sander Lepik 2014-01-26 18:43:07 CET
What about this idea: during adding online medias urpmi asks user if s/he wants to remove local medias. I think that 99% of the time when people add online medias (after install is completed of course) they won't need the local ones anymore.

CC: (none) => mageia

Comment 3 Tony Blackwell 2014-03-15 20:38:07 CET
Good idea - only down-side would be that can't install anything new without net connection even if it was on the install disk - thinking of things like printing not enabled during install and needs to be done at first re-boot, using a lot of packages which are on the install disks.

Another way of doing it would be the older mandriva way, of offering a choice at the beginning of install to save a copy of the install disk locally, then working from that.  The install took a bit longer while it copied the entire disk, but  I found that very convenient, and disk space is less of an issue with big disks these days.
Comment 4 Manuel Hiebel 2014-03-15 21:37:20 CET
isn't this one a dup of https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102 ?
Comment 5 Manuel Hiebel 2014-03-15 21:49:28 CET
looks you say so in the bug, so :)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 102 ***

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => DUPLICATE


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