Your message dated Sat, 9 Jul 2011 23:39:27 +0100
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and subject line Closing old bugs
has caused the Debian Bug report #280935,
regarding debian-cd scripts should be modified to include only one version
(with all variants - 686, k7, 586, etc.) of kernel-image-2.4.x and 2.6.x
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Package: debian-cd
Version: 2.2.20
Severity: normal
Hi,
As usually important kernel-images (like kernel-image-2.6-k7) are missing
at the 1rst DVD disk of the latest official Sarge DVD images (Now-06 and older),
while not useful (outdated) kernel images or kernel sources take lots of
place at the first Debian Sarge DVD:
morph@Zaidimai:/media$ du -h cdrom/pool/main/k |grep kernel |grep M
11M cdrom/pool/main/k/kernel-image-speakup-i386
4,8M cdrom/pool/main/k/kernel-image-2.4.26-i386
42M cdrom/pool/main/k/kernel-image-2.4.27-i386
3,1M cdrom/pool/main/k/kernel-image-2.6.7-i386
43M cdrom/pool/main/k/kernel-image-2.6.8-i386
4,0M cdrom/pool/main/k/kernel-source-2.4.26
40M cdrom/pool/main/k/kernel-source-2.6.6
40M cdrom/pool/main/k/kernel-source-2.6.7
About 100 MB are wasted by not useful (outdated) kernel-image and
kernel-source packages, while latest aren't fully included - for example
kernel-image-2.6.8-1-k7 and kernel-headers-2.6.8-k7 are missing :(
I think debian-cd scripts should be modified to include only one version
(with all variants - 686, k7, 586, etc.) of kernel-image-2.4.x and one of
kernel-image-2.6.x
Popularity-contest *shouldn't make impact* on kernel-image, kernel-headers,
kernel-doc or kernel-source packages, because there always will be lots
of people, who use outdated kernel packages.
Excluding/including kernel packages should be not static (like writing
concrete kernel-image or kernel-source versions in tasks/exclude-sarge
file), but intelligent, maybe with regexps or generating
tasks/included_kernels file on the fly (from the list of available
packages) in CD/DVD image making scripts. Basic rules should be the following:
1. Should *always* include all variants (at least in the 1rst DVD image
should be 686, k7, etc) of the latest kernel-image-2.6 and kernel-image-2.4)
2. Should *always* exclude older (not the latest) versions of kernel-source,
kernel-doc, kernel-patch-debian, kernel-tree, kernel-headers and
kernel-pcmcia-modules
More info about kernel images in the first CD are in this tread:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-cd/2004/01/msg00144.html
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux dubrava.homelinux.org 2.6.5-1-k7 #2 Fri Apr 30 20:46:35 EST 2004
i686
Locale: LANG=lt_LT, LC_CTYPE=lt_LT
Versions of packages debian-cd depends on:
ii apt 0.5.27 Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii apt-utils 0.5.25 APT utility programs
ii bc 1.06-8 The GNU bc arbitrary precision cal
ii cpp 4:3.3.2-1 The GNU C preprocessor (cpp)
ii debootstrap 0.2.45 Bootstrap a basic Debian system
ii grep-dctrl 2.1.7 Grep Debian package information
ii lynx 2.8.4.1b-3.2 Text-mode WWW Browser
ii make 3.79.1-14 The GNU version of the "make" util
ii mkisofs 4:2.0+a30.pre1-1 Creates ISO-9660 CD-ROM filesystem
ii perl [libdigest-md5-per 5.8.4-2 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii sysutils 1.3.8.5.1 Miscellaneous small system utiliti
-- no debconf information
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These bugs are all very old and don't apply to current debian-cd
versions as far as I can tell. If you think I'm wrong, please re-open
your bug and we can discuss it.
Thanks,
Steve
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