John Summerfield wrote:
Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
So, you would want the DVD holding the CD ISO images to replace both
the DVD ISO image and the CD ISO images? That is going to be very
nasty in terms of distribution as one would need a double loop mount
for each CD
Is that difficult? I'd not have thought so. I'm sure I've nested loop
mounts before.
I'm not saying it is difficult but we're not Joe Average are we?
ISO image to be able to use the installation media as a resource for
additional package installation, not to mention the inability of Jigdo
to cope with this -which at this point is just a Release Feature I'm
the owner of.
I am sure that when I learned to use jigdo some years ago, that it
didn't actually care how the file's structured, and that it actually
works with tarballs. See http://atterer.net/jigdo/
[...snip...]
Richard Atterer might be interested on working with you on this; surely
Debian has the same problem.
Debian hasn't got that problem; I've spoken to Richard Atterer and he
feels Jigdo is at it's best as it is right now; enough features for what
it's supposed to do and still maintainable. Looking at the code I
couldn't agree with him more.
The first CDROM though would need to contain another set of metadata
which makes opening up the actual repository a pain in the ass -you
have mediaid's there, again.
I don't understand.
If you have packages spread over multiple locations, you will need to
have repository metadata that also lists the exact location of the
package (ergo in this case CD #1, #2, and so on).
Say we built a slightly-modified boot.iso.
Say this boot.iso contains all that's needed to install
Fedora/RHEL/whatever. Just not the repos.
Say it has a root directory, /images.
Say this directory _might_ have a collection of ISOs.
If this directory has a collection of .ISOs, then it offers the user the
possibility of installing from it. If the collection is incomplete, then
it allows changing media during the install process, as it does now for
CD installations.
I'm not sure how this differs in having both DVD ISO images (just as we
have them now), and CD ISO images available with the releases. I do know
having ISO's inside ISO's makes HTTP/FTP installations more difficult as
one would now just extract or loop mount the DVD ISO image whereas in
this new situation one would have to merge the different CD ISO image's
(that you get when loop mounting the DVD ISO image) contents into one
large repository.
Kind regards,
Jeroen van Meeuwen
-kanarip
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