On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 12:54:37PM +0000, Phil Blundell wrote: > On Wed, 2002-03-06 at 10:33, Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS wrote: > > Perhaps if you put all the localisation data for each language into a > > separate file that is searched for in the root directory of the > > floppy, then people could download a localisation file separately and > > copy it onto the floppy. It wouldn't then matter so much which > > localisations are included with the standard floppy image. Also, it > > would be possible to add and update localisations without rereleasing > > the floppy image. > > The image on the root floppy disk is compressed, which will make it > awkward for users to add extra files there. > > I've checked in some changes to the boot-floppies to allow extra > language catalogs to be shipped on the CD. This is obviously no help to > people who are booting from floppy disk, but it's probably better than > nothing. > > For those on debian-boot, the drill is that dbootstrap searches for > extra languages in /.xlp/messages.XX on the CD during program startup. > Any catalogs it finds are copied into /etc from where LC will pick them > up. The build process creates an archive xlp.tgz containing the > catalogs for everything in $(langs), and i386-specials/mini-iso.sh knows > how to put it onto the CD.
Does this code check to be sure it's not exceeding the ramdisk's capacity? That's pretty easy to do (exceed it, I mean). And it would create a hard-to- track-down problem. -- *------v--------- Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 --------v------* | <http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/installmanual> | | debian-imac (potato): <http://debian-imac.sourceforge.net> | | Chris Tillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | May the Source be with you | *----------------------------------------------------------------* -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
