Re: Alpha milo bootdisks, can we use SuSes?
Helge Kreutzmann <kreutzm@itp.uni-hannover.de> writes:
> On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 10:14:00PM +0200, Goswin Brederlow wrote:
> > Should the boot-floppies script download those disks or do we just
> > copy them into the debian mirror with a readme.txt explaining
> > their origin?
>
> To have a stable and comparable setup (i.e. to have a "single"
> common source regardless what Stefan Reinauer might do in the
> future) I would suppose to include them into debian, not simply
> download them at buid time. We should contact him though and inform
> him to be fair.
I don't see the point in this. It would blow up the build time
tremendously, by several hours, and we would end up with exactly the
same images that we could download. Should we need to do special
tweaks for Debian, we can still grab the source; it's GPL after all.
Falk
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