Re: TRANS.TBL on CDs

2004-06-09 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Quoting Steve McIntyre: Guys, We're still putting TRANS.TBL files in every directory on the CDs. Surely by now we can just lose them? They're going to be wasting space on all the images (especially important on netinst and business card), and I'd bet that we're not bothered about supporting

Re: USB memory stick

2004-06-09 Thread Jacques
Maarten Weijman wrote: Debian team, I am having a slight problem with the live debian cd, because my computer does not have a cd drive. Would it be possible to write the cd images to a usb memory stick and let it work? Your help would be very much apreciated. yours sincerely, Maarten

Re: JTE (Jigdo Template Export) v1.0

2004-06-09 Thread Santiago Garcia Mantinan
On Jun 07 2004, Richard Atterer wrote: Yes, but once you can use the cache, mkisofs needn't even read the file data anymore. It could just skip over the file, output the filename to the .jte and leave the rest to jigdo-file. I can imagine that image creation would be a matter of 30 seconds

Re: JTE (Jigdo Template Export) v1.0

2004-06-09 Thread Richard Atterer
On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 05:35:10PM +0200, Santiago Garcia Mantinan wrote: Richard: I remember that you were about to put out a new version of jigdo that could help in this, how is this going? It's on my TODO list, but I'm afraid I haven't found the time yet to work on it. :-/ Richard --

Re: JTE (Jigdo Template Export) v1.0

2004-06-09 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 05:35:10PM +0200, Santiago Garcia Mantinan wrote: On Jun 07 2004, Richard Atterer wrote: Yes, but once you can use the cache, mkisofs needn't even read the file data anymore. It could just skip over the file, output the filename to the .jte and leave the rest to

Testing CD/DVD images Official?

2004-06-09 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
I'm working on getting setup to become yet another Debian-CD vendor, and am wondering about the proper labeling for the testing CD/DVD images available from http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/ Can images formed from the .jigdo files/templates available here be labeled 'official'

Debian_sarge task missing debian-installer+kernel?

2004-06-09 Thread Santiago Garcia Mantinan
Hi! Joeyh Hess has told me today that he had noticed that some files included in the debian-installer+kernel were not included in some cds (debian-educ) and that after seing this he had found that debian-installer+kernel was not included in the Debian_sarge task. I believe that

Re: JTE (Jigdo Template Export) v1.0

2004-06-09 Thread George Danchev
On Wednesday 09 June 2004 19:21, Richard Atterer wrote: On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 05:35:10PM +0200, Santiago Garcia Mantinan wrote: Richard: I remember that you were about to put out a new version of jigdo that could help in this, how is this going? It's on my TODO list, but I'm afraid I

Re: Bug#253033: installation-reports

2004-06-09 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 11:11:39PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Steve McIntyre wrote: Hmmm. That wasn't very successful. Netcfg loaded fine off the CD, but only after I loaded it by hand. The 3c59x driver for the network card in the test machine just didn't get loaded. Looking at the *nic* .udebs

Re: Testing CD/DVD images Official?

2004-06-09 Thread Richard Atterer
On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 12:05:11PM -0500, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: Can images formed from the .jigdo files/templates available here be labeled 'official' (assuming MD5 sums match) ie: Debian GNU/Linux Testing Sarge Official Snapshot alpha Binary-1 date Labelling the CDs like

Re: TRANS.TBL on CDs

2004-06-09 Thread Santiago Garcia Mantinan
Agreed. Feel free to commit a fix. Done. I have applied your changes to gluck before today's build, but I do not see any important changes in sizes :- at least comparing today's build with yesterday's and I have checked them and there is no TRANS.TBL files on them. Regards... --

Re: Testing CD/DVD images Official?

2004-06-09 Thread Santiago Garcia Mantinan
I'm working on getting setup to become yet another Debian-CD vendor, and am wondering about the proper labeling for the testing CD/DVD images available from http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/ I wouldn't even think in distributing those images, either official or unofficial, they

Re: TRANS.TBL on CDs

2004-06-09 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 11:45:42PM +0200, Santiago Garcia Mantinan wrote: Agreed. Feel free to commit a fix. Done. I have applied your changes to gluck before today's build, but I do not see any important changes in sizes :- at least comparing today's build with yesterday's and I have

Re: JTE (Jigdo Template Export) v1.0

2004-06-09 Thread Richard Atterer
On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 05:34:03PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: Unfortunately, I don't see us (quite) getting that far. To generate the md5 of the full image file (which is kind of useful), we need to read all of the data through anyway. You can't simply lump together multiple md5 chunks. Ah

jigdo vs binary diff

2004-06-09 Thread Richard Atterer
On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 08:45:05PM +0300, George Danchev wrote: what advantages I'll get when using jigdo to update my old image instead of patching the old iso with rdiff. Well, Debian doesn't offer CD image upgrades in rdiff/xdelta format. Generally, IMHO jigdo has the following advantages

Re: JTE (Jigdo Template Export) v1.0

2004-06-09 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 12:16:23AM +0200, Richard Atterer wrote: On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 05:34:03PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: Unfortunately, I don't see us (quite) getting that far. To generate the md5 of the full image file (which is kind of useful), we need to read all of the data through

Re: jigdo vs binary diff

2004-06-09 Thread George Danchev
On Thursday 10 June 2004 01:35, Richard Atterer wrote: On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 08:45:05PM +0300, George Danchev wrote: what advantages I'll get when using jigdo to update my old image instead of patching the old iso with rdiff. Well, Debian doesn't offer CD image upgrades in rdiff/xdelta