On Fri, 2013-05-03 at 08:54 -0500, Chris Adams wrote: > Long-term (if we want to continue handling lots of packages on install > DVDs), what would be nice would be for anaconda to support multiple DVDs > for install _and_ allow them to be inserted for repo reading (so you > could have a "Desktop DVD" with the installer and optionally add a > "Developer DVD", a "Server DVD", etc., each with additional packages. I > seem to remember this being a suggestion with RHL and/or early Fedora > back in the days when it was pushing the limits of a CD (before > everything moved to DVD). > > That would be a PITA to handle; my best guess would be that the install > would have to be broken up into multiple transactions (one per DVD or > install source), but you'd have to resolve deps first (so deps of the > "Development DVD" that are part of the desktop could be installed in the > "Desktop DVD" transaction). We've done it before. For multiple CDs. We may even have done it for multiple floppies waaaay back in the day. I recall the anaconda folks rejoicing wildly as they were finally able to drop the 'multi-disc' code; I suspect you'd have to buy them many, many beers to convince them to put it back in again. :) -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
