Re: Wheezy size -- only 3 DVD ISO image files listed instead of 10
On Tue, 7 May 2013 21:23:38 +0200 Holger Wansing li...@wansing-online.de wrote: Hi, Mariano Lazzaro marianolazz...@gmail.com wrote: Hi! I've seen today that Wheezy was officially released 2 days ago! Great news! There is something that I cannot understand, why does this release fit on 3 DVDs? (at least for AMD64 arch) But on the debian main site says over 37500 packages, and I'm using Debian 6 which has 29000 packages and it's 8 DVDs long. So, is this Debian 7 release thinner than its predecessor or are you using some new and nasty compression algorithm to get the 37500 packages on 3 DVDs? (I ask out of ignorance) There are 3 DVDs listed on http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/7.0.0/amd64/iso-dvd/ so far you are right. But following the jigdo link to http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/7.0.0/amd64/jigdo-dvd/ I see 10 DVDs. So this is probably a case for debian-cd? (in CC) Cheers Holger Hello That „nasty compression” is called jigdo and it's not new at all. ;-) More details here: http://www.debian.org/CD/faq/#not-all-images Regards -- Mateusz Poszwa -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-cd-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130508171654.552b120f@debelianear
Re: Wheezy size -- only 3 DVD ISO image files listed instead of 10
Hi, Mariano Lazzaro marianolazz...@gmail.com wrote: Hi! I've seen today that Wheezy was officially released 2 days ago! Great news! There is something that I cannot understand, why does this release fit on 3 DVDs? (at least for AMD64 arch) But on the debian main site says over 37500 packages, and I'm using Debian 6 which has 29000 packages and it's 8 DVDs long. So, is this Debian 7 release thinner than its predecessor or are you using some new and nasty compression algorithm to get the 37500 packages on 3 DVDs? (I ask out of ignorance) There are 3 DVDs listed on http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/7.0.0/amd64/iso-dvd/ so far you are right. But following the jigdo link to http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/7.0.0/amd64/jigdo-dvd/ I see 10 DVDs. So this is probably a case for debian-cd? (in CC) Cheers Holger -- = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Created with Sylpheed 3.0.2 under D e b i a n G N U / L I N U X 6.0 ( S q u e e z e ) Registered LinuxUser #311290 - http://linuxcounter.net/ = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-cd-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130507212338.09856067.li...@wansing-online.de
