Could the FC3 DVD images be split into i386, x86_64, and SRPM images? Besides eliminating the need for overburning (until at least FC4...) it'd eliminate the rather large duplication of the SRPM directory for those of us who download both the x86_64 images (for ourselves) and i386 images (for our wayward Intel-using friends).
About the problems ftp'ing FC3 images: Bittorrent is your friend. You may not be able to contribute back as much as you downloaded, but every gigabyte of bandwidth helps.
Once upon a time, Brian Stretch bstretch@mindspring.com said:
Could the FC3 DVD images be split into i386, x86_64, and SRPM images? Besides eliminating the need for overburning (until at least FC4...) it'd eliminate the rather large duplication of the SRPM directory for those of us who download both the x86_64 images (for ourselves) and i386 images (for our wayward Intel-using friends).
The SRPMS images are architecture specific. The contents are mostly the same, but the CD images are generated separately.
It would be nice if the SRPMS images were made:
- identical (there'd be some extra packages that are only for some archs, but it would be much easier)
- move all common stuff to common SRPMS CDs and then put arch specific stuff on separate SRPMS CDs
- a hybrid version of the above: put as much common stuff as possible on common SRPMS CDs, then have one CD per arch that has the arch specific stuff and the rest of the common stuff
This would also be a bit nicer for mirrors (as well as people that download multiple archs), as it would save around 2G of space per additional arch. If then the DVD images were built with a per-arch binary and a common SRPMS image, that would save another 2G per additional arch.