On Tue, 7 May 2013 21:23:38 +0200 Holger Wansing <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > Mariano Lazzaro <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi! I've seen today that Wheezy was officially released 2 days ago! > > Great news! > > > > There is something that I cannot understand, why does this release fit > > on 3 DVDs? (at least for AMD64 arch) > > > > But on the debian main site says over 37500 packages, and I'm using > > Debian 6 which has 29000 packages and it's 8 DVDs long. > > > > So, is this Debian 7 release "thinner" than its predecessor or are you > > using some "new and nasty" compression algorithm to get the 37500 > > packages on 3 DVDs? (I ask out of ignorance) > > There are 3 DVDs listed on > http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/7.0.0/amd64/iso-dvd/ > so far you are right. > > But following the jigdo link to > http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/7.0.0/amd64/jigdo-dvd/ > I see 10 DVDs. > > So this is probably a case for debian-cd? (in CC) > > > Cheers > Holger Hello That „nasty compression” is called jigdo and it's not new at all. ;-) More details here: http://www.debian.org/CD/faq/#not-all-images Regards -- Mateusz Poszwa -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130508171654.552b120f@debelianear
