[CentOS-devel] DVD split media

Mon Jun 30 16:11:57 UTC 2014
Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org>

On 06/30/2014 05:07 PM, Fabian Arrotin wrote:
> On 30/06/14 17:44, Karanbir Singh wrote:
>> On 06/30/2014 09:17 AM, Anssi Johansson wrote:
>>> Here's the final split according to my proposal:
>>> $ du -s dvd*
>>> 3339792	dvd1
>>> 2822120	dvd2
>>>
>>> $ wc -l c7-dvd*
>>>    2987 c7-dvd1-rpms.txt
>>>    5478 c7-dvd2-rpms.txt
>>>    8465 total
>>>
>>> Here's my proposal for the split:
>>> http://miuku.net/tmp/7packages/c7-dvd1-rpms.txt
>>> http://miuku.net/tmp/7packages/c7-dvd2-rpms.txt
>>
>> This is fantasic bit of work - reading through the email, I agree - this
>> should give us a pretty good idea on the split.
>>
>> One point though - if we were to do :
>>
>> dvd#1.iso
>> dvd#2.iso ( which contains things otherwise not installable via the
>> installer )
>>
>> and a distro-everything.iso ( at about 7GB, for people who want to host
>> it on USB keys and nfs mounts etc ),
>>
>> then is there any point in the dvd#2 ? if people cant use it install time ?
>>
>> - KB
>>
> 
> If packages on DVD#2 aren't installed by a rpm dep from packages on DVD
> #1, and that those packages aren't referenced in the comps.xml (that can
> force packages to be installed without any rpm dep), I'd be inclined to
> skip dvd #2, and just have all those packages on the mirrors (and
> included in the distro-everything.iso, that can be used on a usb stick)
> 
> 

we'd need to be very very sure that dvd#2 does not get anything that
might otherwise get used from the installer.


-- 
Karanbir Singh
+44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh
GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc