houghi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 02:41:20PM +0100, Andreas Jaeger wrote: >> > What would be the problem by having a layout like CD 3, 4 or 5? >> > e.g. CD3-5 has one directory media.X, several small files and one directory >> > suse with all the rpm's. OK. CD 1 and 2 are different as they are >> > bootable. >> >> We have the challenge that during a normal "OSS" installation, no >> non-OSS software should get installed. Doing it with the AddOn CD >> allows this in the best way. > > I understand this and agree completely. I am talking about CD > 6 and especially how the directory tree and such is going to be and if > it is just data (like on CD3-5) or if there is going to be something > different with that CD/
The non-OSS CD will have its own media.1 directory and therefore another CD1 - not like CD3-5. > >> With your suggestion, we would have to add the metadata of the non-OSS >> packages to CD1. > > No need for that. makeSUSEdvd uses create_package_descr to make its own > metadata. > >> > Please consider this when making the ISO. Thanks. >> >> Let us play with this a bit... > > Sure. I played around as well a bit. :-) The following I did with 10.0 CD > set, because they are not Beta. I have several rpm's in a directory in the > following structure: > . > `-- suse > |-- i386 > |-- i586 > |-- i686 > `-- noarch > > In . I just placed a file `content`, because makeSUSEdvd uses it to check > if it is a SUSE iso. Next a `mkisofs -r -J -l -o SUSE.iso dir/` to make > the ISO. Then a makeSUSEdvd and a testinstall. > > The result is that I can install makeSUSEdvd during the installation > already, as well as any other RPM I had put in that directory. > > So _if_ the layout of CD6 is the same, then there should be no problem. I > can imagine there could be some extra directories, but that should not > really be a problem. The layout is the same - just it has metadata on it. > I have even added some extra files AND a repodata in a second test and no > problem there. Also just using CD1 and my own CD works great. Ok, I'll try to give you something to test soon ;-) > Mmm. An extra addition to makeSUSEdvd in the coming. Add a directory with > RPM's to be included in your own DVD. Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126
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