DVD image of FC3 test2 for x86_64 too big?

Nigel Metheringham Nigel.Metheringham at dev.intechnology.co.uk
Wed Sep 29 09:32:20 UTC 2004


On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 10:51 +0200, Matthias Saou wrote:
> Nigel Metheringham wrote :
> > I guess the request I was going to put in, that the headers and repo
> > metadata also be added to the DVDs so they could be used in place of the
> > exploded distribution on mirrors (ie loopback mount the DVDs and so save
> > another 5GB of disk) ain't going to be possible...
> 
> Metadata should be small enough for this : The current (compressed) common
> XML metadata for the set of i386 development packages takes up a mere 1MB
> ;-)
> Maybe it's even already included, but if not, you may want to poke someone
> and/or file an RFE, as it does seem like a good idea to me.

I am a little confused as to what data yum does need - the current
version in rawhide (yum-2.1.3-1) appears to pull header data under some
circumstances - and the test2 exploded version has both repodata and
headers (although the headers appear to have been added later).

In any case its now an RFE - 
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=134052


	Nigel.
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