Hi, A kind of report on where the Hurd CD is at. Comments please.
Size. The last pre-pool CD was 645 MB. This CD was limited to Hurd packages only. Since then 9 MB of Hurd packages has been added making a total of 654 MB. So there are now two CDs. However, since the introduction of pool there is no easy way I can see to prevent non-Hurd *all.deb packages in pool being included on the CDs. Initially this meant that the second CD was 316 MB. However, kde, task-* and kernel packages were added to the exclude list which brought the size of the second CD down to 186 MB. This problem is going to get worse as pool expands. Suggestions of packages to add to exclude would be welcome. alpha.gnu.org. These packages have been added to the main tree. These packages are also in the exclude list as well. This means that these are are excluded before the alpha.gnu packages are added thus avoiding duplication. Package ordering. ../tasks/Debian-sid controls the order in which packages are added to the CDs after the base, important etc packages have been added. The file list for the pre-pool CD is the basis of this list. Since dependency checking has been disabled there is no reasonable way to ensure that the dependencies on the first disc have been met. However, the second disc only contains optional and extra packages. Apt. This is needed to cope with the two CDs, unless we go backwards and go for the multi-cd option. Apt would make the building of CDs so much easier!!! Locales and dpkg-dev are now on the CDs. What this means. We can still have HURD CDs during the transition to pool. boot-floppies needs to be tweaked and then everything is ready for the new tarball. Phil. - Philip Charles; 39a Paterson St., Dunedin, New Zealand; +64 3 4882818 Mobile 025 267 9420. I sell GNU/Linux CDs. See http://www.copyleft.co.nz
