Colin Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I don't think we need to regenerate the basedebs.tgz at every build > of b-f, especially now that base is frozen. As far as I understand > things, the basedebs.tgz is essentially independent of b-f. It's > just a snapshot of woody at a particular time.
Right. I was thinking it should be generated (and not by default) by building debootstrap a special way, with ByHand entries and a changelog and all that. I talked to AJ about that, he provisionally ok'd but he should get approval or at least asked about any such changes (being also an archive maintainer). I belive you want to split it into 1.44M disk images as well. It should be pretty trivial to do this but you'll may want to assume the debootstrap is already installed ... ? > I guess what we will have to do is generate it occasionally and dump > it in the current/ directory of disks-$ARCH on the mirrors. Well, let's have it be uploadable and let the archive maintainers decide where to put it. > It kind of sucks to add a large tarball to the mirrors of what is > essentially just the .debs they are already mirroring, plus a little > extra data, but I don't see a way around it. Well, just for the benefit of the CD folks, if they are planning to provide the disk images on the CD. Doing that was the consensus we arrived at -- e.g., for someone who has a CD and floppy at one computer but only a floppy and no network at another. Is anyone volunteering to work on this? If not, I'll try to get to it next week (but I'd rather have the time to work on bad boot-floppies bugs). -- ...Adam Di Carlo..<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...<URL:http://www.onshored.com/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
