Re: [PATCH] Handle the DVD having a disknumber of ALL. (443291)

[Jeremy Katz <katzj redhat com>]

On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 23:17 +0200, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
> Jesse Keating wrote:
> > Well, doing CDs, DVDs, and a Blu-ray would be a bit much, and somewhat
> > difficult for anaconda to tell apart.  "Which Disc 2 do you want?"
> > Either we need to fix anaconda to know about specific sized media sets
> > (can't use format, because you can always upscale, IE burn CD isos to
> > DVD, or DVD isos to BD), or we stick to one iso that fits on a given
> > media, and splits of something smaller than that.  Be it 9 CDs and one
> > Blu-Ray (again ALL on the BR, and 1; 2; 3; 4 on each successive CD), or
> > 2 DVDs and one Blu-Ray, or...
> > 
> > In the mean time, I just want to move forward with the paradigm that
> > 'ALL' really means 1, that is expect Packages/ and repodata/ to be
> > there, and use the repodata to determine whether or not you need more
> > discs for the install.  The repodata is really what's going to trigger
> > anaconda into thinking that it needs more/different media.
>
> Do we really need to capture cases in which anaconda asks for disc #2 
> (suppose you started with a CD) and you insert the wrong disc #2 (for 
> example, a DVD)? So far, all the media has gone well, very well in fact; 
> The Everything Spins (19 CDs, 3 DVD, or 1 DVD-BR + 1 DVD-sized ISO), 
> never had a problem but for the case you are capturing with the patch.

The original idea was that the CDs would contain a single disc number
and the DVDs would contain the disc numbers of the _CDs that they
contain the contents of_.  Which yeah, means you can't quite fully fill
the DVD but that was seen as the lesser of the evils.  And then asking
for CD 2 would mean "whatever contains the contents of CD2" and the DVD
could be labeled with "Fedora DVD 1 (contains CDs 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5)"

Jeremy