On Fri, 2013-05-03 at 08:54 -0500, Chris Adams wrote:
Long-term (if we want to continue handling lots of packages on install DVDs), what would be nice would be for anaconda to support multiple DVDs for install _and_ allow them to be inserted for repo reading (so you could have a "Desktop DVD" with the installer and optionally add a "Developer DVD", a "Server DVD", etc., each with additional packages. I seem to remember this being a suggestion with RHL and/or early Fedora back in the days when it was pushing the limits of a CD (before everything moved to DVD).
That would be a PITA to handle; my best guess would be that the install would have to be broken up into multiple transactions (one per DVD or install source), but you'd have to resolve deps first (so deps of the "Development DVD" that are part of the desktop could be installed in the "Desktop DVD" transaction).
We've done it before. For multiple CDs. We may even have done it for multiple floppies waaaay back in the day. I recall the anaconda folks rejoicing wildly as they were finally able to drop the 'multi-disc' code; I suspect you'd have to buy them many, many beers to convince them to put it back in again. :)