On Monday 20 April 2009 07:15:22 pm James Gallagher wrote: > The problem of space on the DVD has been an issue in the last few DVD > releases of Fedora, requiring the removal of previously included packages. > > Now, isn't it the case that many fedora users download F8, F9, F10 ... iso > images every 6 months or so? > > So wouldn't it make sense to have a delta image made from successive > releases and an accompanying script which would read from a previously > existing iso image or disk and recreate the "full" iso image, splitting it > into 2 dvd disc images if required or merging for transfer to a > double-sided dvd or large usb stick? > > (I don't think it would be a huge ask of anaconda to install from 2 disks > rather than 1) > > Even if the image size is kept below 4.3GB for a single disk, the delta > download would be welcomed by many. > > After all, I think some of the large language packages would have a pretty > small delta between 6 month release cycles. > > btw, I don't expect this ready for F11 ;) It's called jigdo. -- Conrad Meyer <konrad@xxxxxxxxxx> -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
