Steve McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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. Ok. When does the CD need to be ready? There is one last binary sparc package in incoming, to sync up with the versions in other architectures. I can manually merge it into my local archive and generate the CDs now, or I can wait until dinstall and generate the CDs late tonight (circa 1800 EST). Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED]
