On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 11:07 AM, Scott Dowdle dowdle@montanalinux.org wrote:
I wouldn't think so. Debian used to produce CD and DVD images for their entire package base... and Debian ended up being 50+ CDs... but who really downloaded all of that and who would want to mirror it? Fedora gave up producing media for everything some time ago.
In older Centos releases the CD images were handy because you could rsync them to an NFS-exported directory, and do a network install without having to do anything else, but I don't think that works any more - or at least you have to extract the images directory first. Now I think the easiest approach is to install a minimal CD iso, then 'yum install big_list_of_packages'. Especially since you'll end up getting a lot of them as updates immediately anyway if you install them from DVDs. It might be useful to publish the 'big_list_of_packages' for the sets that you can choose in a DVD install so you could match them easily.