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: > <snip> 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