Reduce "Core" to 1 Binary CD? -- WAS: Request for Packages in Fedora Core 3

[Alexandre Oliva]

On May 24, 2004, Rui Miguel Seabra <rms at 1407.org> wrote:

>   Can one simply mount, say...

> /mnt/rec/FC2-i386-isos/FC2-i386-disc1.iso
>    /var/ftp/pub/fc2/disc1 auto    defaults,loop=/dev/loop0 0 0

> /mnt/rec/FC2-i386-isos/FC2-i386-disc2.iso
>    /var/ftp/pub/fc2/disc2 auto    defaults,loop=/dev/loop1 0 0

> /mnt/rec/FC2-i386-isos/FC2-i386-disc3.iso
>    /var/ftp/pub/fc2/disc3 auto    defaults,loop=/dev/loop2 0 0

> /mnt/rec/FC2-i386-isos/FC2-i386-disc4.iso
>    /var/ftp/pub/fc2/disc4 auto    defaults,loop=/dev/loop3 0 0

> and then point askmethod to ftp://server/pub/fc2/ ?

I don't think so.  That would be nice very though.

But what would be *really* cool would be to have the next-generation
yum-arch search .iso files for rpms and generate meta information for
them as well, indicating the offsets into the .iso file that contain
the package.  Then mirrors wouldn't have to carry two copies of every
package, one in the .iso, one in an exploded tree.

Seth, are you keeping a wish list? :-)

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