On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 8:29 AM, Miklos Vajna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 05:12:47PM -0400, Cory Burgett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> Having so many ISOs is confusing and uses up too much unnecessary space. It >> would be trivial for someone to just download CD1 and the individual >> packages they needed to make custom package CDs for offline installation. >> Really, most users will only want/need the DVD or CD1/CD2 (or netinstall of >> course). From there, they can torch their own package CDs if they need >> them. > > http://frugalware.org/docs/install#_choosing_installation_flavor > > we link this part of the documentation in each release announcement. is > it really confusing once one read it over? > >> As an alternative to hosting all the ISOs (and thereby duplicating the >> hosted packages), why not do something like Debian's jigdo? Just a thought >> :) > > that's already done, it's called 'mkiso' and it's installed by default > on all Frugalware systems ;) > > if we really want to cut something down, i would propose to stop > releasing cd images, just release netinstall/dvd ones. this will hurt > anybody who has only cd writer and no dvd writer + no direct internet > connection. i have no idea what percentage of users are affected. > > (of course then it would be nice to prepare users for this, like: > mention that the next stable release won't come with cd images in the > 0.9 announcement then release 0.9+1 without cd images.)
First - I want to vote that the CD ISOs *not* be removed completely. I agree with Cory that perhaps cutting back to CDs 1 & 2 may be feasible. I have no idea what the 'mkiso' tool does but I'll read up on that. My point was much the same as Cory's - if the CD ISOs contain copies of packages already contained elsewhere on the mirror, why would anyone be downloading the ISOs instead of selected packages? Once you have a basic Frugalware installation, you can then enter the command "pacman-g2 -Sp package1 package2 package3 package4", redirect this to a file, then feed this into wget/curl and *bingo*, you have the packages downloaded. Maybe there's something I'm missing here? I understand that for an inexperienced person, it's easier to say "download all the CD ISOs", but if they're downloading ISOs for no benefit, it's simply a waste of their bandwidth. May you always be Frugal, Russell Dickenson (AKA phayz) _______________________________________________ Frugalware-devel mailing list [email protected] http://frugalware.org/mailman/listinfo/frugalware-devel
