Re: Bug#93612: Support for new archive structure

2001-04-12 Thread Philip Charles
On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, Philip Charles wrote: > > > Apt-cdrom does not work. dselect works if the file system is strangely > > modified. apt will work if the CD is copied to a separate partition. > > Hurd even had apt-cdrom? The ancient version tha

Re: Bug#93612: Support for new archive structure

2001-04-12 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, Philip Charles wrote: > Apt-cdrom does not work. dselect works if the file system is strangely > modified. apt will work if the CD is copied to a separate partition. Hurd even had apt-cdrom? The ancient version that was packaged sure didn't include it, so I'm not amazed if

Re: Bug#93612: Support for new archive structure

2001-04-12 Thread Philip Charles
On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, Philip Charles wrote: > > > With the Hurd CDs it is even worse. The file structure on the CDs has > > only a passing resemblance to any file system found on a Debian CD or > > mirror past or present. It has to be like that o

Re: custom download/burn

2001-04-12 Thread MPfeifer
On 12-Apr-2001 Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Le Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 07:51:45PM +0200, MPfeifer écrivait: >> OK thanks, but how the hell is this tool been used? there is no "man >> debian-cd" or even "debian-cd"-binary executable. could you please point >> me to some direction? > > Yep. > > $ cd /us

Re: Bug#93612: Support for new archive structure

2001-04-12 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, Philip Charles wrote: > With the Hurd CDs it is even worse. The file structure on the CDs has > only a passing resemblance to any file system found on a Debian CD or > mirror past or present. It has to be like that or it will not work. I don't even think I want to know..

Re: Bug#93612: Support for new archive structure

2001-04-12 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > APT does not support that, if it does not work then too bad, I don't care. > > :P > Apt always supported that. If I put my CD and mount it on /cdrom and > use "deb file:/cdrom/debian woody main contrib non-free" in sources.list, > it does work !

Re: Bug#93612: Support for new archive structure

2001-04-12 Thread Philip Charles
On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Raphael Hertzog wrote: ** > Why should the normal Packages file be named differently and not the new > files that we are introducing ? > > > People who do that are more likely to copy the entire CD set to the hard > > disk so they do in fact have a complete mirror, and s

Re: custom download/burn

2001-04-12 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 07:51:45PM +0200, MPfeifer écrivait: > OK thanks, but how the hell is this tool been used? there is no "man > debian-cd" or even "debian-cd"-binary executable. could you please point > me to some direction? Yep. $ cd /usr/share/debian-cd/ $ less README Cheers, -- Raphaë

Re: custom download/burn

2001-04-12 Thread MPfeifer
> You're confusing several things here. You can create custom debian CD iso > if you build yourself your iso image with debian-cd. > > Check the debian-cd package or the CVS tree for an up to date version of > the CD building tool. OK thanks, but how the hell is this tool been used? there is no

Re: Bug#93612: Support for new archive structure

2001-04-12 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 10:01:14AM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe écrivait: > > By old tools, I meant standard tools, not tools dedicated to CDs. Actually > > many people use standalone Debian CD like a Debian mirror : > > APT does not support that, if it does not work then too bad, I don't care. > :P A

Re: Bug#93612: Support for new archive structure

2001-04-12 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Philip Charles wrote: > On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, J.A. Bezemer wrote: > > So I think we should continue to generate _correct_ Packages files for > > each CD, and solve the "signing issue" using some other method. > > I repeat my earlier suggestion. Sign md5sums.gz, this is supp

Re: Bug#93612: Support for new archive structure

2001-04-12 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Le Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 02:20:49AM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe écrivait: > > I think the best suggestion was to have a Packages.cd which could be used > > Packages.cd files exists but exists only for dpkg-multicd which is a > dselect method. And it's qu

Re: custom download/burn

2001-04-12 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 01:35:50PM +0200, MPfeifer écrivait: > as people need to come to us physically when they want to buy cd's we would > like that people can burn their customized cd's locally if they want. that > means: use a tool like the pseudo-image-kit to download from the > installserver

Re: Bug#93612: Support for new archive structure

2001-04-12 Thread Anthony Towns
On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 08:58:30AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > (and was going to use the md5sums in it to ensure the Packages > > file wasn't corrupt, too :-/) > Duh. Couldn't we generate new Release files and sign them again ? > Wouldn't you trust the debian-cd build ? Not if I can avoid i

custom download/burn

2001-04-12 Thread MPfeifer
hello, i got a question about customized debian-cd's. i am volunteer from free internetworkplace Puscii in the netherlands and we sell debian CD's for various platforms. the next weeks we will start to build an installserver, which has the function to host the entire directory-three of the debia

cvs commit to debian-cd/tools by hertzog

2001-04-12 Thread hertzog
Repository: debian-cd/tools who:hertzog time: Thu Apr 12 03:40:08 PDT 2001 Log Message: * Copy dists//Release and Release.gpg files Files: changed:scanpackages -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Bug#93612: Support for new archive structure

2001-04-12 Thread Philip Charles
On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, J.A. Bezemer wrote: > So I think we should continue to generate _correct_ Packages files for > each CD, and solve the "signing issue" using some other method. I repeat my earlier suggestion. Sign md5sums.gz, this is supposed to be the accuracy and security file. A s

Re: Bug#93482: cd install

2001-04-12 Thread J.A. Bezemer
Yesterday, Raphael Hertzog wrote (copied from the list archive): > Le Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 10:44:58PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo crivait: > > I don't think it will be radically changing in woody. I would hope > > perhaps the debian-cd team could perhaps work out a better way to > > switch between the

Re: Dead link in page

2001-04-12 Thread J.A. Bezemer
On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Istari wrote: > This link: > > http://people.debian.org/~dunham//CD/CD-art/ > > in this page: > > http://cdimage.debian.org/faq.html > > appears to be a dead link (a typo in the link I think). Thanks for the info. Unfortunately I suspect that it's gone permanently (due

Re: Bug#93612: Support for new archive structure

2001-04-12 Thread J.A. Bezemer
On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > > > 2a) Check that the md5sums of the Packages-signed.gz and > > > Sources-signed.gz files you have match the md5sums listed > > > in the Release file > > > 2b) Check that every packag

Re: Bug#93612: Support for new archive structure

2001-04-12 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 02:20:49AM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe écrivait: > I think the best suggestion was to have a Packages.cd which could be used Packages.cd files exists but exists only for dpkg-multicd which is a dselect method. And it's quite ugly since those files lists all the packages availab

Re: Change of rsync-mirror entry.

2001-04-12 Thread J.A. Bezemer
On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, Rushi Desai wrote: > Can you change our debian-cd mirror entry from: > > India, Pune > debian.mitp.ac.in::debian-cd/(only i386 binaries) > > to: > > India, http://www.mitp.ac.in">Maharashtra Institute of > Technology, Pune > debian.mitp.ac.in::debian-cd/(only i386

Re: New mirror site mirror.csit.fsu.edu

2001-04-12 Thread J.A. Bezemer
On Sun, 8 Apr 2001, Daniel Whelan wrote: > There is a new debian-cd (and debian for that matter, not that it concerns > this list) mirror site available on mirror.csit.fsu.edu. It is under the > pub/debian-cd/ directory via http and ftp, and under debian-cd/ via rsync. > The machine is currently

Re: Bug#93612: Support for new archive structure

2001-04-12 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > 2a) Check that the md5sums of the Packages-signed.gz and > > Sources-signed.gz files you have match the md5sums listed > > in the Release file > > 2b) Check that every package listed in each Packages.gz and > > Sou