On Feb 22, 2005, Chris Adams <cmadams@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > That still assumes everyone has high-speed bandwidth available, which is > a broken assumption. If you think everyone should be downloading to get > most packages, why not make boot.iso the only distributed image and make > everything else downloaded? That "solves" all the CD/DVD count and > distribution issues. > I am disappointed that the setup for Fedora Extras is to just have a > rolling-update tree with no ISOs. That makes FE packages second class > citizens. How about rolling out ISOs of Fedora Extras *and* Core weekly or so, including all updates? This would address the issue of people who install FC3 now and then have to download an additional 1.5 CD just to get all of the available updates, then have them all installed overnight. If we keep the distribution of packages inside ISOs relatively stable, rsync (which all? mirrors use to get contents from the master server) would do a great job limiting the transferred data to the new packages, and perhaps even less than that, since rsync could then take advantage of similarities between the old version of the package and the new build. If we had tools to look into ISOs built into yum, then mirrors could even refrain from carrying the exploded trees. Just like yum 2.1 uses byte ranges to download the header portion of an rpm, it could extract rpms from isos. Failing that, there's always loopback mount or isoinfo. -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org}
