FC4 ISO suggestion

Charles R. Anderson cra at WPI.EDU
Mon Dec 13 00:01:40 UTC 2004


On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 05:55:28PM -0600, Chris Adams wrote:
> I would first like to see the build system modified so that there can be
> a single set of SRPMS ISOs, not one for each arch.  With the current two
> arches, that would cut down on mirror storage space by 2.3G; _then_ you
> could use that space for a single SRPMS DVD ISO.  Otherwise, you just
> added 4.6G to the space requirement for each FC release (and more if
> more arches become mainline) without adding any content.

Jigdo could solve this problem if Red Hat created DVD (and even CD)
jigdo files.  Then anyone could download the component files and
recreate the original DVD iso or CD isos.




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