Re: including full package source code in the debian release

2010-03-07 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le samedi 06 mars 2010 à 19:29 -0800, Jamie Morken a écrit : assuming 32KB per 1000 lines of code, this would be about 8.6GB for 283 million lines of code. assuming a factor of 100 for the compression of this code, this would give approx 88MB of extra space required in the debian

Re: including full package source code in the debian release

2010-03-07 Thread Patrick Matthäi
On 07.03.2010 04:29, Jamie Morken wrote: Hi, Debian releases have 25,000 or so packages and don't include the source to them, so to recompile the package you use apt-get to connect to the internet and download the source to one package at a time if you want the source code. I did some

Re: including full package source code in the debian release

2010-03-07 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Sat, 2010-03-06 at 19:29 -0800, Jamie Morken wrote: Debian releases have 25,000 or so packages and don't include the source to them This is not completely accurate. The most frequently downloaded CD/DVD/BD don't include the source, but the debian-cd team does release some media that

Re: including full package source code in the debian release

2010-03-07 Thread Jamie Morken
- Original Message - From: Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org Date: Sunday, March 7, 2010 12:57 am Subject: Re: including full package source code in the debian release To: Jamie Morken jmor...@shaw.ca Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org   There are two little flaws in your reasoning

including full package source code in the debian release

2010-03-06 Thread Jamie Morken
Hi, Debian releases have 25,000 or so packages and don't include the source to them, so to recompile the package you use apt-get to connect to the internet and download the source to one package at a time if you want the source code.  I did some calculations to see how much bulk adding the

Re: including full package source code in the debian release

2010-03-06 Thread Russ Allbery
Jamie Morken jmor...@shaw.ca writes: Debian releases have 25,000 or so packages and don't include the source to them, Huh? We most certainly do. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: including full package source code in the debian release

2010-03-06 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Sat, 06 Mar 2010 19:29:22 -0800 Jamie Morken wrote: so including compressed package source code would have a very minor impact on the overall file size of the debian release. you can achieve your goal by burning the isos and having them on hand. or you can create less physical waste by loop