[issue176] cd channel

[Jeff Johnson]

On Jun 18, 2006, at 11:16 AM, Christoph Thiel wrote:

> On Sat, 17 Jun 2006, jon at Labix Tracker wrote:
>
>> jon <linux.learner at gmail.com> added the comment:
>>
>> I just compared
>> ftp://opensuse.mirrors.skynet.be/pub/ftp.opensuse.org/opensuse/ 
>> distribution/SL-10.1/inst-source/content
>> to that on the SUSE cd. They are exactly the same. Also Fedora uses
>> repodata (rpm-md).
>
> rpm-md isn't used on the SUSE CDs or DVDs. It's only used in the ftp
> trees.
>

Any particularly reason other than no round 'tuits? I'm patiently  
collecting rpm-md wartlets, there
are any number of deficiencies in the representation.

> The CD change problem is an known issue with the yast2 channel  
> support.
>

Hmmm, I can describe how the multi-cd swapping problem is solved in  
anaconda if you wish.

73 de Jeff