Re: frozen unstable distribution problems

1997-06-06 Thread Francis C. Swasey
Jim Pick writes: I believe Bruce has some official CD images that would better to use for the frozen (now stable) distribution. I think it's a 2 disk set. Francis C. Swasey writes: If those are the images in the dist (or is it dists??) directory, the unstable one points at hamm, but

Re: frozen unstable distribution problems

1997-06-06 Thread jghasler
I wrote: I realize that it would use more disk space, but I really think that the CD images should contain no links. Francis C. Swasey writes: I hope you mean no links out of the CD image itself. Yes, that is what I meant. John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain.

Re: frozen unstable distribution problems

1997-06-05 Thread Francis C. Swasey
Jim Pick said: I believe Bruce has some official CD images that would better to use for the frozen (now stable) distribution. I think it's a 2 disk set. If those are the images in the dist (or is it dists??) directory, the unstable one points at hamm, but hamm has lots of symbolic links back

Re: frozen unstable distribution problems

1997-06-05 Thread jghasler
Jim Pick writes: I believe Bruce has some official CD images that would better to use for the frozen (now stable) distribution. I think it's a 2 disk set. Francis C. Swasey writes: If those are the images in the dist (or is it dists??) directory, the unstable one points at hamm, but hamm has

frozen unstable distribution problems

1997-06-04 Thread Francis Swasey
Folks, I've just discovered that the Packages file on ftp.debian.org is again out of synch with the actual packages in the distribution. I'm sure (since this has been reported time and time again) that the Packages file on master is correct. We really do need to find some way to keep the

Re: frozen unstable distribution problems

1997-06-04 Thread Jim Pick
Francis Swasey wrote: The second problem I just ran into is that the size of the main directory in the frozen (bo) distribution has grown to such a size that it can no longer be contained on a 650,000,000 byte CD along with the unstable version. This means that you (at least I) can no