I hereby announce the release of the Fedora Offline Package Manager (RUM) 0.0.1.
This program is meant to enable users who do not have a viable network connection to manage their packages, ie. install new ones and update existing ones, through the standard package management framework used in Fedora.
If you are interested then you can read more about it at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SummerOfCode/2007/DebarshiRay
This is a beta release and offers the following features:
1. Profile management: a. Exporting the profile of the local system. b. Importing the profile of another system. c. Deleting existing profiles.
2. YumPack creation - Although I have tested this to the best of my ability, I would appreciate if you could try to create new YumPacks and verify whether the dependencies are being correctly resolved.
To install package(s) from a YumPack, you would need to untar the YumPack, which is essentially an uncompressed Tar archive, and use 'system-install-packages' to install the RPMs as you would normally do.
Tar ball: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DebarshiRay/rum?action=AttachFile&do=get&...
Pre-requisites: If you are using Pirut <1.3.9, then you would need to apply this patch on /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pirut/__init__.py: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DebarshiRay/rum?action=AttachFile&do=get&...
Installation instructions: 1. $ tar -xzvf rum-0.0.1.tar.gz 2. $ cd rum-0.0.1 3. $ ./configure --prefix=/usr (Other prefixes are not expected to work. Please bear with it for the moment.) 4. $ make 5. # make install
Execution instructions: 1. $ rum
Documentation page: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DebarshiRay/rum This is lagging behind a bit, but will be eventually updated.
Bug-reports and comments are to be sent to rishi@fedoraproject.org.
Happy hacking, Debarshi
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DebarshiRay/rum
The documentation for Fedora Offline Package Manager (RUM) version 0.0.1 is now available at the above link. I have added a few new screenshots of the new GUI application to explain how it works.
Happy hacking, Debarshi
Hi All,
Here is some feed back we collected about the event last week.
cheers Senthil
Good Job!!! --------------
1) The free software event was really useful. In fact, I got to know the origin of free software and the correct meaning "free" software only after attending the event.
The pot-luck was always really good, particularly the chicken dish. :-)
Most importantly, I met many people at the session and exchange of ideas was great. --Sayeed
2)Congratulations! on organising such a great event.. I think the presentation was fabulous. It was very well made and was put across in a a way where it made an impact.
Meeting up to exchange ideas and finding out what people are upto is a good idea.
Was great to be a part of the event..
---Ashwini
1) Thanks to all others who organised the event. For me it was a great exposure. Even getting soemthing as basic as -free as in freedom and not free as in freebies is what FS means was very exciting.
2) Yes, we have switched one computer at office to Ubuntu already, thanks to the session and Ashish's high energy levels. Hopefully Balaji will be able to make it to office on Saturday and we can figure out an equivalent for SPSS and how to work smoothly on open office spreadsheet also and then our transition would be complete.
The film and presentation were quite good!
- Kamayayini
Thanks Best kamayani
Need to improve ----------------- 3) I felt people were still apprehensive about various applications running on Linux. Lot of time went in trying to convince that such (e.g.: Baraha kind of documentation) things (i.e, not the Baraha tool as such) are indeed available. It would have been easy if you just showed how to it. When there is a specific query, better demonstrate right away, if possible. For example, it was so simple to demonstrate the USB stick works. In summary, come prepared to run few applications and interface device access. These are the fundamental things that people expect in a demo like this.
The presentation was useful to me.
-Ravi A
point taken ! will show kannada stuff nex time
Well being honest i thought the pre-lunch half was really good, but the next was more of a techie session and left us non-techies out. Maybe dividing into groups would be a good idea. One computer or laptop per group kind of a thing. --Kamayayini
point taken
regards Senthil
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Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray -
Senthil Sundaram (sensunda)