Bug#613751: debian-cd should sort sources better to fill CDs/DVDs
Package: debian-cd
Version: 3.1.5
Severity: minor
The squeeze release DVDs for source demonstrate this problem well:
$ ls -altr iso/debian-6.0.0-source-DVD-*iso
-rw-r--r-- 1 steve users 4669829120 2011-02-16 22:16 iso/debian-6.0.0-source-DVD-1.iso
-rw-r--r-- 1 steve users 4676808704 2011-02-16 22:20 iso/debian-6.0.0-source-DVD-2.iso
-rw-r--r-- 1 steve users 3917697024 2011-02-16 22:23 iso/debian-6.0.0-source-DVD-3.iso
-rw-r--r-- 1 steve users 4671989760 2011-02-16 22:26 iso/debian-6.0.0-source-DVD-4.iso
-rw-r--r-- 1 steve users 4698984448 2011-02-16 22:30 iso/debian-6.0.0-source-DVD-5.iso
-rw-r--r-- 1 steve users 196368384 2011-02-16 22:30 iso/debian-6.0.0-source-DVD-6.iso
DVD #6 is tiny (less than 200MB), yet there's ~700MB of spare space on
DVD #3. The cause is easy to identify: the massive nexuiz-data source
package won't fit in the remaining space on DVD #3 so it triggers us
to start a new disc. That's OK-ish, but wasteful.
For binary discs, we want to keep packages in dependency order so we
*don't* shuffle things, but for source discs it really doesn't matter
at all. At the moment we're just filling them in alphabetical order
(for want of anything better), and we could do better in terms of
filling discs.
--
Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. steve@einval.com
Is there anybody out there?
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