On Thu, 2005-10-27 at 14:55, Andy Green wrote:
Les Mikesell wrote:
There's no need to store all of the intermediate rev's of the iso images, and it would most likely result in less bandwidth
Here's a wild thought, maybe the whole idea of ISO images, sampling a copy of the rest of the repo state base-only or with updates, is actually the evil part here.
Partly right. It's obviously horribly wasteful and not particularly useful to have a gazillion mirror copies of the giant every-changing workspace of fedora archived away. However, isos make good bittorrent and rsync targets and as such make sense for bandwidth sharing and saving.
AIUI Anaconda is moving towards being based on yum... in that case just a small bootable ISO image with no RPMs in it, which then demands to see a local or remote yum repo so it can find the latest versions of all packages in a standard way, and so throwing away precooked ISOs of anything from the Fedora mirrors, might be a solution.
Maintaining local yum repos means you have to mirror a lot of gunk you'll never use and relying on remote ones means trouble when things get out of sync. What we need is a more intelligent way to share bandwidth without cluttering the world with useless snapshots.