Targetting OEM's (Re: reducing distribution CD count)

[Jesse Keating]

On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 11:59 -0500, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> Unfortunately, if you try to use it during the install process, you
> end
> up having to switch CDs a bazillion times due to package ordering
> concerns.  That or you have to do some ugly things with precaching
> packages to be installed on the hard drive.  
> 
> And that's assuming there aren't significant dependency changes that
> throw things more for a loop :/

sure, for inline usage.  What about something less elegant, like 'Do you
have an update CD?  Oh you do?  Lets install these updates now'.  Sure
it's ugly in that we already installed the package once, but it gets the
job done.  Thats essentially what I'm going now somehwhat manually w/
our post-install CDs.

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