Thanks, On 23 Mar 2001, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote:
> Philip Charles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Question. How many files can a directory contain? > > What filesystem? ext2? iso? > > I just created a directory with 10000 files and successfully run > mkisoimg on it. So both of those filesystems should have no problem in > with a few thousand files. Ext2. So I have no problems here. > > With no exclusion list, but with full dependency checking, the Hurd CDs > > now have ~1 gig of packages. There may be problems in identifying what > > can be excluded to halve this. I have managed to get both main and extra CDs down to 600 meg, hopefully without removing anything useful. -doc packages were a major target along with kernel, netscape et al, lg, and Linux documentation. I can get the F1 CDs out the door. Monday D.V? > Hmm, I count 1652 Architecture: all packages in Debian. Classifying > them all into linux-all vs. really-all will be some work. Maybe you > should start applying some heuristics. A few from the top of my head: > The way the Debian archive is organised at the moment is a pain in the butt, but that is the way it is. What I would like to see is something like this, Main archive -> Hurd sub-set -> [filters] -> CD sub-set. I had hoped that the Hurd sub-set would have been enough. Now if someone could come up with the filters ... Phil. - Philip Charles; 39a Paterson St., Dunedin, New Zealand; +64 3 4882818 Mobile 025 267 9420. I sell GNU/Linux CDs. See http://www.copyleft.co.nz [EMAIL PROTECTED] - prefered. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
