Collapsing DVD and CD torrents into one

[Jeremy Katz]

On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 11:10 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> Jeremy Katz wrote:
> > And while anything is possible, as I mentioned, doing something like
> > this (having the CD isos just loopback mounted off the DVD) would make
> > DVD vs CD installs substantially different in terms of how the code
> > works.  And that code is twisty turny enough as it is
> 
> Isn't that exactly the way an NFS or HD install works when you point it 
> to a directory of CD iso images?  I'd think consolidating the techniques 
> would simplify things.

No, because one is reading off of a hard drive/NFS and one of them is
reading off of a spinning, ejectable medium.  Eject-able is a pretty key
difference especially as we continue to enable more ways to add more
repos (including hopefully multiple *media* based repos in F11)

Jeremy