[RFC] unified i386/x86_64 install media.

[James Antill]

On Wed, 2009-11-25 at 13:18 +0100, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
> On 11/25/2009 03:26 AM, Seth Vidal wrote:
> > On Tue, 24 Nov 2009, Matthew Miller wrote:
> >> So would this mean one disk with two "repositories" on it, or is
> >> everything
> >> mashed together all in one repository?
> > 
> > it'd be easy to have two sets of repodata in two different dirs pointing
> > to the same set of pkgs.
> > 
> 
> On 11/25/2009 07:28 AM, Jesse Keating wrote:
> > Two repos, but with hardlinks.
> 
> I doubt ISO9660 can deal with hardlinks, but I have to admit I've never
> really tried (I did try once and gave up pretty quickly I recall).
> 
> Also, the way I understand this works, you can just include x86_64
> packages in the one repository...

 You can but that will break x86_64, because i386 will need i386
packages that x86_64 must not have as multilib.
 As Seth said, you can have one giant directory of packages and just
different repodata pointing to subsets.
 As Jesse said you could also use hardlinks/symlinks in the x86_64 repo.
 Or you could even create three repos. i386, x86_64 and i386-common (not
that I think that will be better than the other two options).

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