Contents-i386.gz files
About 1/5th of the sarge businesscard image, and a fair bit of the netinst iso are taken up by the Contents-i386.gz files. I propose that these be dropped from these smaller images. As I understand it, the reason to include the Contents files is so users with a full CD set, who are on limited bandwidth or offline will have access to it. This is a good thing, and it's small compared to a full CD set. But with the small network install images, it is both relatively quite large, and not very useful, since the user will have a network connection, and will only use their CD for the intitial install. I've also thought that it might be worthwhile to remove the debian-keyring.tar.gz file (also 7 mb) from these images. However, I do not really know how that file is intended to be used. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Contents-i386.gz files
On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 03:53:13PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: About 1/5th of the sarge businesscard image, and a fair bit of the netinst iso are taken up by the Contents-i386.gz files. I propose that these be dropped from these smaller images. As I understand it, the reason to include the Contents files is so users with a full CD set, who are on limited bandwidth or offline will have access to it. This is a good thing, and it's small compared to a full CD set. But with the small network install images, it is both relatively quite large, and not very useful, since the user will have a network connection, and will only use their CD for the intitial install. That makes obvious sense, yes. I've also thought that it might be worthwhile to remove the debian-keyring.tar.gz file (also 7 mb) from these images. However, I do not really know how that file is intended to be used. I'm not sure myself. Maybe things like debsig-verify will use the keyring files in there to validate the signatures of the packages. Even so, on a small image I'd agree that's a lot of space to be taking up. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.[EMAIL PROTECTED] Welcome my son, welcome to the machine. signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Contents-i386.gz files
Quoting Steve McIntyre: About 1/5th of the sarge businesscard image, and a fair bit of the netinst iso are taken up by the Contents-i386.gz files. I propose that these be dropped from these smaller images. As I understand it, the That makes obvious sense, yes. Agreed. Comitted something that should do it. I've also thought that it might be worthwhile to remove the debian-keyring.tar.gz file (also 7 mb) from these images. However, I do not really know how that file is intended to be used. I'm not sure myself. Maybe things like debsig-verify will use the keyring files in there to validate the signatures of the packages. Even so, on a small image I'd agree that's a lot of space to be taking up. IIRC, that file has never been integrated explicititely. It's just that we include everything from the doc directory on the mirror. So we can safely remove it. I committed changes to remove that file (on all kind of CD). Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog -+- http://www.ouaza.com Formation Linux et logiciel libre : http://www.logidee.com Earn money with free software: http://www.geniustrader.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
