On Sat, 6 Mar 1999, Steve Dunham wrote: >Steve McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> So, where are we up to for sparc/alpha. The m68k stuff is sorted now, as >> is the i386. Where have we got to on fixing the last few dependencies? >> I've added "exclude" support to slink_cd as a last-miute hack to allow us >> to simply lose any final problem packages, I'll be sending this out >later. >> I'm going to be building the m68k, i386 and source CD images overnight on >> cdimage.debian.org ready for people to test them... > >How exactly does "exclude" work? Does it rebuild all of the Packages >files or just the master ones for the CD?
Just the ones for the CD. It works as a modifier in the genlist stage - where it used to check for which of the first 2 CDs a main package should go on, there's now a third option EXCLUDED where the package will simply be ignored. The syntax is simple - exclude-$ARCH should list package names. -- Steve McIntyre, Allstor Software [EMAIL PROTECTED] <a href=http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~stevem/comp/>My PC page</a> "Can't keep my eyes from the circling sky, "Tongue-tied & twisted, Just an earth-bound misfit, I..."
