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
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