Re: Bits from the Debian CD team

2009-01-20 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 04:20:25AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 01:32:07PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: That depends on what you mean by a multiarch Blu-ray image. The inherent nastiness of the HFS hybrid code means that we probably won't be able to produce BD images

Re: Bits from the Debian CD team

2009-01-14 Thread Steve McIntyre
Goswin wrote: Frans Pop elen...@planet.nl writes: Overview of available CD/DVD/Blu-ray images for Lenny - Architecture-specific images: * businesscard CD * network install (netinst) CD * full CD (650MB) images, users can now choose

Re: Bits from the Debian CD team

2009-01-14 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 01:32:07PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: That depends on what you mean by a multiarch Blu-ray image. The inherent nastiness of the HFS hybrid code means that we probably won't be able to produce BD images including powerpc at all. BD boot code is identical to that on CD

Re: Bits from the Debian CD team

2009-01-13 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Frans Pop elen...@planet.nl writes: Overview of available CD/DVD/Blu-ray images for Lenny - Architecture-specific images: * businesscard CD * network install (netinst) CD * full CD (650MB) images, users can now choose between: -

Re: Bits from the Debian CD team

2009-01-06 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Frans Pop wrote: The Debian CD team has made practical use of the extra time allowed for the release of Lenny by implementing some late improvements of the CD and DVD images available for Lenny [snip] Thanks for massive work! -- Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID:

Re: Bits from the Debian CD team

2008-10-14 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 15 October 2008, Steve McIntyre wrote: * Full CD sets for all architectures: + i386, amd64 and source will all be available for download as ISO, torrent and jigdo + for powerpc we will create ISOs/torrents for the first 8 CDs only (with the rest as jigdo) +

Re: Bits from the debian-cd team; more CD/DVDs being built regularly

2006-12-31 Thread Steve McIntyre
Eduard Block wrote: #include hallo.h * Steve McIntyre [Wed, Dec 20 2006, 06:29:04PM]: Gnome vs. KDE vs. XFCE == The KDE and XFCE variants of CD#1 are now being produced to give more choice to people for initial installation. By default, CD#1 has always meant to be

Re: Bits from the debian-cd team; more CD/DVDs being built regularly

2006-12-30 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h * Steve McIntyre [Wed, Dec 20 2006, 06:29:04PM]: Gnome vs. KDE vs. XFCE == The KDE and XFCE variants of CD#1 are now being produced to give more choice to people for initial installation. By default, CD#1 has always meant to be enough to install a

Re: Bits from the debian-cd team; more CD/DVDs being built regularly

2006-12-28 Thread Thiemo Seufer
Steve McIntyre wrote: [snip] mips jealously scribbles all over the first 512 bytes I figure that's a DVH Disk Volume Header as used on SGI machines. mipsel == bytes 000-008 : 0-padding 008-011 : magic header 012-015 : boot mode 016-019 : load address

Re: Bits from the debian-cd team; more CD/DVDs being built regularly

2006-12-28 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 08:32:28PM +, Thiemo Seufer wrote: Steve McIntyre wrote: [snip] mips jealously scribbles all over the first 512 bytes I figure that's a DVH Disk Volume Header as used on SGI machines. Yup, exactly. I borrowed the layout from your own genisovh program... :-)

Re: Bits from the debian-cd team; more CD/DVDs being built regularly

2006-12-28 Thread Joey Hess
Note that the XFCE CD originally announced in the head of this thread is actually working now. http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/i386/iso-cd/debian-testing-i386-xfce-CD-1.iso It won't install xdm though.. that will probably be fixed in time for next week's build, along with

Re: Bits from the debian-cd team; more CD/DVDs being built regularly

2006-12-23 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Steve McIntyre dijo [Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 03:04:54PM +]: Bad news I'm afraid. I've worked through the mkisofs boot code again, and I get: (...) I'm looking further to see if it's at all possible to get (e.g.) hppa and alpha to live in the same boot sector, but it's really not likely. I

Re: Bits from the debian-cd team; more CD/DVDs being built regularly

2006-12-23 Thread Steve McIntyre
[ Please follow the Reply-To: and head over to debian-cd if you want to discuss this further... ] On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 03:04:54PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: Bad news I'm afraid. I've worked through the mkisofs boot code again, and I get: alpha:Writing alpha boot descriptor at extent

Re: Bits from the debian-cd team; more CD/DVDs being built regularly

2006-12-23 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Sat, Dec 23, 2006 at 12:57:44PM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: Steve McIntyre dijo [Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 03:04:54PM +]: Bad news I'm afraid. I've worked through the mkisofs boot code again, and I get: (...) I'm looking further to see if it's at all possible to get (e.g.) hppa and alpha to

Re: Bits from the debian-cd team; more CD/DVDs being built regularly

2006-12-22 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 06:29:04PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: I'm still expecting to add Live CDs to the list here before we release. Otherwise, I think we're about set. If there's anything else you'd like us to do or anything you'd like to ask about, please reply to this mail - note the

Re: Bits from the debian-cd team; more CD/DVDs being built regularly

2006-12-22 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Friday 22 December 2006 11:07, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: I'm not sure if this is done (I assume it's not) but I would really like the DVDs / CDs to have a 'documentation media' which could be used to read documentation without having to install the system. I like the idea.

Documentation CD (was Re: Bits from the debian-cd team; more CD/DVDs being built regularly)

2006-12-22 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 01:21:01PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: Hi, On Friday 22 December 2006 11:07, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: I'm not sure if this is done (I assume it's not) but I would really like the DVDs / CDs to have a 'documentation media' which could be used to read

Re: Bits from the debian-cd team; more CD/DVDs being built regularly

2006-12-22 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 05:33:18PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 03:43:55PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: I'm sure they're, so can't we go for a new multiarch containing hppa and ia64 only or even i386, hppa and ia64 ? Hmm, keeping i386 on it is an interesting idea. Or it

Re: Bits from the debian-cd team; more CD/DVDs being built regularly

2006-12-20 Thread Gustavo Franco
On 12/20/06, Steve McIntyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (...) Gnome vs. KDE vs. XFCE == The KDE and XFCE variants of CD#1 are now being produced to give more choice to people for initial installation. By default, CD#1 has always meant to be enough to install a

Re: Bits from the debian-cd team; more CD/DVDs being built regularly

2006-12-20 Thread Philip Payne
I hope its not too inappropriate to post this message on this group, I am not a developer but I subscribed to this group a long time ago just to keep in touch with what was happening with Debian I just want to say thank you so much for this fantastic system : Etch/Testing It works so fine on

Re: Bits from the debian-cd team; more CD/DVDs being built regularly

2006-12-20 Thread Joey Hess
Gustavo Franco wrote: Unfortunately, even the GNOME desktop environment doesn't fit on the CD#1. True, but enough does fit to have a basically useable gnome desktop. You will need broadband connection to fetch some more packages or use the full DVD#1 for your architecture. The bonus is that

Re: Bits from the debian-cd team; more CD/DVDs being built regularly

2006-12-20 Thread Gustavo Franco
On 12/20/06, Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gustavo Franco wrote: Unfortunately, even the GNOME desktop environment doesn't fit on the CD#1. True, but enough does fit to have a basically useable gnome desktop. Right, but we need to make it clear for the users and the first line of them

Re: Bits from the debian-cd team; more CD/DVDs being built regularly

2006-12-20 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 05:04:28PM -0200, Gustavo Franco wrote: Let me thanks the debian-desktop, debian-installer and tasksel team too. Without them, that stuff would be useless. Yup, of course. :-) I would like to clarify that debian-desktop (alioth, svn, mailing list) is now a unit composed

Re: Bits from the debian-cd team; more CD/DVDs being built regularly

2006-12-20 Thread Gustavo Franco
On 12/20/06, Steve McIntyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 05:04:28PM -0200, Gustavo Franco wrote: (...) In case it's not obvious, the 3 arches picked for these discs are simply the most common end-user systems out there. There is scope for producing more multi-arch discs, but

Re: Bits from the debian-cd team; more CD/DVDs being built regularly

2006-12-20 Thread Joey Hess
Gustavo Franco wrote: Do you know what's broken in Xfce cd? Is it tasksel related? I hope not. Missing task file, it should be fixed in the next build. Sounds great, could you give me a link with the log or check it in the next build please? I checked the log, the current muti dvd doesn't

Re: Bits from the debian-cd team; more CD/DVDs being built regularly

2006-12-20 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 20 décembre 2006 à 14:21 -0500, Joey Hess a écrit : Gustavo Franco wrote: Unfortunately, even the GNOME desktop environment doesn't fit on the CD#1. True, but enough does fit to have a basically useable gnome desktop. Are you talking of gnome-core or gnome-desktop-environment?

Re: Bits from the debian-cd team; more CD/DVDs being built regularly

2006-12-20 Thread Joey Hess
Josselin Mouette wrote: Are you talking of gnome-core or gnome-desktop-environment? gnome-core is indeed really basic, but g-d-e already includes a complete desktop. gnome-desktop-environment is the sole key package in the gnome-desktop task, and nearly the only one from that task that

Re: Bits from the debian-cd team; more CD/DVDs being built regularly

2006-12-20 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 20 décembre 2006 à 16:03 -0500, Joey Hess a écrit : Not having gnome on a single CD is understandable given how much we've bloated this metapackage. Actually, we don't even include the gnome metapackage in the full gnome-desktop task. gnome-office, gdm-themes and

Re: Bits from the debian-cd team; more CD/DVDs being built regularly

2006-12-20 Thread Joey Hess
Josselin Mouette wrote: It's somewhat a shame not to have gnome-office, or at least gimp, inkscape and gnumeric, which are by many points superior to other alternatives. We do have gimp in the desktop task. I'm willing to consider gnumeric and inkscape. Actually I wouldn't really mind

Re: Bits from the debian-cd team; more CD/DVDs being built regularly

2006-12-20 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 20 décembre 2006 à 16:27 -0500, Joey Hess a écrit : Josselin Mouette wrote: It's somewhat a shame not to have gnome-office, or at least gimp, inkscape and gnumeric, which are by many points superior to other alternatives. We do have gimp in the desktop task. I'm willing to

Re: Bits from the debian-cd team; more CD/DVDs being built regularly

2006-12-20 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 03:43:55PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: I'm sure they're, so can't we go for a new multiarch containing hppa and ia64 only or even i386, hppa and ia64 ? Hmm, keeping i386 on it is an interesting idea. Or it could have alpha, hppa, and ia64, for the big/old/weird/64 bit

Re: Bits from the debian-cd team; more CD/DVDs being built regularly

2006-12-20 Thread Joey Hess
Joey Hess wrote: I checked the log, the current muti dvd doesn't seem to have any desktop packages on it, not even gnome-desktop-environment. Wrong log as it turns out. The gnome task is there, in full, as are almost all other tasks, except for a few of the last language tasks. The kde task