FC3 DVD Image Suggestion

[Chris Adams]

Once upon a time, Brian Stretch <bstretch at mindspring.com> said:
> Could the FC3 DVD images be split into i386, x86_64, and
> SRPM images?  Besides eliminating the need for overburning
> (until at least FC4...) it'd eliminate the rather large duplication
> of the SRPM directory for those of us who download both the
> x86_64 images (for ourselves) and i386 images (for our
> wayward Intel-using friends). 

The SRPMS images are architecture specific.  The contents are mostly the
same, but the CD images are generated separately.

It would be nice if the SRPMS images were made:

- identical (there'd be some extra packages that are only for some
  archs, but it would be much easier)

- move all common stuff to common SRPMS CDs and then put arch specific
  stuff on separate SRPMS CDs

- a hybrid version of the above: put as much common stuff as possible on
  common SRPMS CDs, then have one CD per arch that has the arch specific
  stuff and the rest of the common stuff

This would also be a bit nicer for mirrors (as well as people that
download multiple archs), as it would save around 2G of space per
additional arch.  If then the DVD images were built with a per-arch
binary and a common SRPMS image, that would save another 2G per
additional arch.

-- 
Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.