Johnny Hughes wrote:
<moved over from the CentOS list to CentOS-devel>
On Wed, 2006-11-22 at 01:06 +0000, Karanbir Singh wrote:
Matthew Miller wrote:
On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 06:32:29PM +0000, C. L. Martinez wrote:
Somebody knows if exists some roadmap about release beta process for CentOS 5 in parallell with RedHat ?? Or we need ot wait until RedHat 5 will be released??
I'm also curious if there's plans to do a separate Desktop and Server release. From what I saw in RHEL5 beta1, there's apparently a slightly different set of packages in each....
There is going to be a bit of a discussion on this soon, also howto manage the various repos within each tree.
- KB
There are differences in the upstream release for Client and Server (much like the difference between AS, ES, WS, Red Hat Desktop, etc). We handled this in CentOS-3 and CentOS-4 by just releasing the AS package set and it contains all the other subsets.
It is slightly different now, however, as there are separate yum repositories (and directories) for Server, Client, VM, Cluster*, etc. on the EL5 Beta2 CDs (much like CentOS has extras, centosplus, etc. :P).
In a yum tree on the server this is not too hard, links can be created to connect the packages that are the same and all can co-exist in one tree.
(that might also work OK for the Binary DVD too ... we might be able to fit all the packages on the DVD in separate repos/dirs and keep it under 4.3gb)
As far as I know, ln -s or hardlinks will not translate to size savings (or even work) on an iso9660 CD ... therefore it seems that we may have to either:
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Johnny,
from the man page of mkisofs it appears that mkisofs can detect hardlinks and realizes space savings based on these:
-cache-inodes Cache inode and device numbers to find hard links to files. If mkisofs finds a hard link (a file with multiple names), then the file will only appear once on the CD. This helps to save space on the CD. The option -cache-inodes is default on UNIX like operating systems. Be careful when using this option on a filesystem without unique inode numbers as it may result in files containing the wrong content on CD.
HTH, Kay