Bug 62989

Summary: splitdistro doesn't know how to span multiple disks dynamically
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Jeff Lovell <jalovel>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Jeremy Katz <katzj>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Mike McLean <mikem>
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Version: 7.2Keywords: FutureFeature
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OS: Linux   
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Description Jeff Lovell 2002-04-08 22:05:44 UTC 
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Description of problem:
i have been playing with the splitdistro that is included with the 7.2 version
of anaconda.  when wanted to span more than 2 binary CDs i discovered that
splitodisto would have to be modified.  so i went and grabbed the latest version
from skipjack and saw that it would work.  but i figured that as soon as i
needed to go more than 3 CDs i would run into the same problem.

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. put enough RPMS in ths i386/RedHat/RPMS directory to fill 3 CDS
2. run splitdistro against it
3. notice that disc2 is too large to fit on a CD
	

Actual Results:  i386-disc2 was over 800 megabytes

Expected Results:  splitdistro should know how many CDs to create and make the
hierarchies the correct size.

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Comment 1 Jeff Lovell 2002-04-08 22:12:56 UTC 
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Comment 2 Jeremy Katz 2002-04-08 22:17:43 UTC 
Created attachment 52785 [details]
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Comment 3 Jeremy Katz 2002-04-08 22:19:19 UTC 
Unfortunately, this doesn't let us get away with doing things like 2.5 binary,
2.5 source CDs like we're currently doing for skipjack, so this isn't a great
solution either. :(
Comment 4 Jeff Lovell 2002-04-08 22:47:12 UTC 
i'll clean that up and diff it against skipjack.  shouldn't be too hard to get in.
Comment 5 Jeremy Katz 2003-01-23 01:00:40 UTC 
Without patches, this is just going to get updated as we need new functionality