Re: CD images of Slink
On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, Marcelo E. Laurenti wrote: On Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 03:54:27PM +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote: I am wondering, if anybody tried to build a CDimage of Slink. Will main fit on one CDROM? For hamm this problem was addressed pretty late (main, contrib, non-free) and the solution was acceptable at best. I have. Slink's main section is about 750 MB right now. boot disks (disks-i386) are about 20 MB more. Documents, 2 MB. tools, 1 MB. 5 MB more for indices (which I like to include on my cd's in case I screw up). 5 MB overhead for the cd-specific things (the table, the translation table, the other translation table, the padding, ...). You end up with 785 MB to put on a single CD. I solve getting only slink//binary- (all/i386)/admin/ there are still a lot of symlinks from slink to hamm. /debian/dists/slink$ du -sckL */binary-i386/ 112169 contrib/binary-i386 769521 main/binary-i386 5727non-US/binary-i386 160401 non-free/binary-i386 1047818 total non-free and non-US don't matter for the CD, but main is 769MB and contrib is 112MB. i think what we need is a kernel driver for swappable CDs - some sort of CD jukebox emulator. or apt could be made to do this without any kernel hacks. just for curiosity's sake, editors, x11, doc, and devel seem to be the largest sections. /debian/dists/slink$ du -sckL main/binary-i386/* | sort -n 447 main/binary-i386/Packages.gz 858 main/binary-i386/hamradio 1298main/binary-i386/electronics 1518main/binary-i386/Packages 1870main/binary-i386/shells 3733main/binary-i386/news 3873main/binary-i386/misc 4883main/binary-i386/comm 9682main/binary-i386/admin 9987main/binary-i386/otherosfs 12022 main/binary-i386/base 15255 main/binary-i386/mail 15700 main/binary-i386/web 17173 main/binary-i386/oldlibs 17376 main/binary-i386/sound 17709 main/binary-i386/utils 20971 main/binary-i386/net 21904 main/binary-i386/libs 22815 main/binary-i386/games 25151 main/binary-i386/graphics 25155 main/binary-i386/interpreters 38269 main/binary-i386/tex 41465 main/binary-i386/math 45991 main/binary-i386/text 69621 main/binary-i386/editors 70242 main/binary-i386/x11 82342 main/binary-i386/doc 172210 main/binary-i386/devel 769520 total craig -- craig sanders
Re: CD images of Slink
On Tue, Oct 06, 1998 at 09:01:09AM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote: just for curiosity's sake, editors, four different emacsen x11 xbooks doc the gimp manual devel seem to be the lots of -dev and -dbg stuff (don't take me wrong, all of this is good!) I do think rethinking what's extra would solve the problem this time. Or splitting the CD's in Requiered, Important, Standard + optional(depended upon) and another CD which contains optional (dependens on) + extra. Then apt would solve the problem of installation ordering. Marcelo
CD images of Slink
I am wondering, if anybody tried to build a CDimage of Slink. Will main fit on one CDROM? For hamm this problem was addressed pretty late (main, contrib, non-free) and the solution was acceptable at best. Or is this problem completely obsolete with Apt? Thanks. -- Rainer Dorsch Abt. Rechnerarchitektur e-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Uni StuttgartTel.: 0711-7816-215
Re: CD images of Slink
On Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 03:54:27PM +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote: I am wondering, if anybody tried to build a CDimage of Slink. Will main fit on one CDROM? For hamm this problem was addressed pretty late (main, contrib, non-free) and the solution was acceptable at best. I have. Slink's main section is about 750 MB right now. boot disks (disks-i386) are about 20 MB more. Documents, 2 MB. tools, 1 MB. 5 MB more for indices (which I like to include on my cd's in case I screw up). 5 MB overhead for the cd-specific things (the table, the translation table, the other translation table, the padding, ...). You end up with 785 MB to put on a single CD. I was toying with this the other day; I ended up using a script to get only packages with priority != extra, but that still won't fit on a single CD. I nuked a few packages by hand some versions of emacs) and I got it under 630, which is about ok for me because I like to add the lastest 2.1 kernel plus a few patches. It seems now it's a good time to rethink what's extra. Marcelo
Re: CD images of Slink
On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: On Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 03:54:27PM +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote: I am wondering, if anybody tried to build a CDimage of Slink. Will main fit on one CDROM? For hamm this problem was addressed pretty late (main, contrib, non-free) and the solution was acceptable at best. I have. Slink's main section is about 750 MB right now. boot disks (disks-i386) are about 20 MB more. Documents, 2 MB. tools, 1 MB. 5 MB more for indices (which I like to include on my cd's in case I screw up). 5 MB overhead for the cd-specific things (the table, the translation table, the other translation table, the padding, ...). You end up with 785 MB to put on a single CD. I solve getting only slink//binary- (all/i386)/admin/ I was toying with this the other day; I ended up using a script to get only packages with priority != extra, but that still won't fit on a single CD. I nuked a few packages by hand some versions of emacs) and I got it under 630, which is about ok for me because I like to add the lastest 2.1 kernel plus a few patches. It seems now it's a good time to rethink what's extra. Marcelo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Marcelo E. Laurenti Escuela de Ingenieria Electronica Fac. de Cs. Exactas e Ingenieria Universidad Nacional de Rosario
