Stephen John Smoogen wrote: >On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 14:21, Bill Nottingham <notting@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Chris Lumens (clumens@xxxxxxxxxx) said: >>> > If you get rid of split media, what will happen once you have a >>> > multi-DVD release? >>> >>> The idea is that multi-DVD is too much crud, and we should be better >>> structuring our releases to where that's not a problem. That is, spins >>> should become more discerning and useful. Network install methods >>> should get played up more. The livecd is a popular way of installing >>> now, and that's not going to be multi-media. >> >> I agree with this in general. But I can't help but wonder if there are >> anaconda-using projects that are going to be limited to doing ISO based >> installs for the most part, and may have to deal with split DVDs >depending >> on how they grow. > >*cough* CentOS 5.5 *cough* This could bite upgrades. Last year I had to put together upgrades from CentOS-4-based systems to CentOS-5-based, using CDs not DVD or network. Because several libraries had been moved to different packages between 4 and 5, the upgrade wanted 5 CDs while a fresh install of the same system only required 1. The only way I could reduce the upgrade to a single CD was to write a nasty pre-upgrade script that uninstalled a load of system packages (from alchemist to xorg-x11-libs) and hope that my far-flung users would read the instructions to run it. Moray. "To err is human. To purr, feline" _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel-list mailing list Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list
