On Mar 16, Philip Charles wrote: > I am in the process of configuring debian-cd to produce woody images. > Some interesting results. non-US and non-free (initially) were included. > cvs was updated earlier today and no change found. The MULTIBOOT option > was enabled. I am running a woody system. > > New base-woody and task-woody files were generated. There were only minor > differences between the new files and the old that came with debian-cd. A > seven CD set was then built. Packages with "Task: foo" fields were > scattered throughout the seven CDs. > > A second set was built with COMPLETE=0 and "popularity-contest-woody" > deactivated along with the other non-essential bits and the result was > about 1.3 CDs. > > A reduced task-woody list was then generated using > > cat task.list | while read LINE; do \ > apt-cache dumpavail | grep-dctrl -F Task $LINE -n -s Package;done > \ > task-woody > > task.list being a partial list of the available tasks. > > A third CD set was built along the lines of the second. The result was > 1.5 CDs, bigger than the second set. On investigation it was found that > the latest task-woody was bigger than the original. > > A full task-list file was generated using my script. The seven CD set > built. This time the packages with "Task: foo" were confined to the first > two CDs with only one of these packages being on the third. > > Conclusion 1. The mini script for generating task-list in debian-cd is > NBG. I cannot see why this is the case.
The script in debian-cd is erroneous, and only picks up the names of tasks with hyphens in them; I fixed it in CVS a few days back. The list should now be correct, too. > For the final build COMPLETE=0 was set and popularity-contest deactivated, > but the other bits in ../tasks/Debian_woody left active. non-free was > excluded and non-US included for this build. > > Result, the second CD was 500 MB. > > Conclusion 2. We will have to do some hard thinking about what should be > on the first and second CDs. I can get all of the non-i18n tasks on CD 1 and have space left over for lots of interesting packages. My gut feeling is that the i18n tasks can either be on CD #2, or a separate "woody-i18n" set with some of the other tasks dropped from CD #1 may be appropriate. As an alternative, I think if you dropped the non-Western European language tasks (which pull in a lot of fonts and other big packages) you could still have a decent #1 CD; the ISO-8851-1/15 language tasks don't bring in a lot of stuff (dictionaries, mainly). But I haven't tried this. Chris -- Chris Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.lordsutch.com/chris/ Instructor and Ph.D. Candidate, Political Science, Univ. of Mississippi 208 Deupree Hall - 662-915-5765 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]