Bug 223892

Summary:	one base 1 CD plus cached downloaded packages
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 10.3	Reporter:	macias - <bluedzins>
Component:	Installation	Assignee:	Michael Loeffler <michl>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity:	Enhancement
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	aj
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
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Description macias - 2006-11-27 15:14:27 UTC

Please, provide 1 CD real minimum install, just bare system able to download the rest of the system. I see no technical difference downloading all the stuff as ISO vs. downloading all the stuff as rpms.

Of course it would be useful with ability to cache all the downloaded&installed rpms, so the user could easily make&burn Extras ISO for her/himself. This way, when installing on the sencod computer, or reinstalling, she/he could simply install the base system + Extras.

Current policy is an overkill -- 1, 2...5 CD + addons, 1 DVD, what next? 2 DVDs? Or just 1 BlueRay?

Download/Install-on-demand _plus_ cache&burn all the "extras" is much more efficient and flexible (not mentioning network usage).

Comment 1 Andreas Jaeger 2007-04-17 13:42:21 UTC

For caching I suggest you set up a caching webproxy like squid and use that.

For the one CD, use the Mini-ISO.

Everything is there you need to plug it properly together ;-).

Comment 2 macias - 2007-04-17 16:45:42 UTC

Andreas, it is not a fix, rather workaround (but helpful, so thanks, I didn't consider it before).

I was thinking about something really simple, yet elegant -- setting cache dir for yast and option "do not delete after install". Also yast could do more sophisticated things -- managing this cache, so when I upgrade some package, the old version would be deleted (option).
This would be very useful as a crash recovery, or another install. I really doubt webproxy has those features because, well, it is just a proxy (besides, does not proxy caches all data? if yes it would double effort to make it yast-only cache).

Btw. maybe I am wrong, but yast already caches downloads, but currently in some hidden directories (another reason why just-proxy is not good, now the data would be tripled), so partially it is already done. Minimum step more is to make it available for the user in decent way.

Comment 3 Andreas Jaeger 2007-04-18 07:02:03 UTC

I'll add the caching of files to our internal feature tracker - and therefore mark this as fixed for now.