Collapsing DVD and CD torrents into one
Jeremy Katz
katzj at redhat.com
Mon Oct 20 18:03:17 UTC 2008
On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 11:10 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> Jeremy Katz wrote:
> > And while anything is possible, as I mentioned, doing something like
> > this (having the CD isos just loopback mounted off the DVD) would make
> > DVD vs CD installs substantially different in terms of how the code
> > works. And that code is twisty turny enough as it is
>
> Isn't that exactly the way an NFS or HD install works when you point it
> to a directory of CD iso images? I'd think consolidating the techniques
> would simplify things.
No, because one is reading off of a hard drive/NFS and one of them is
reading off of a spinning, ejectable medium. Eject-able is a pretty key
difference especially as we continue to enable more ways to add more
repos (including hopefully multiple *media* based repos in F11)
Jeremy
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