Re: Wheezy size -- only 3 DVD ISO image files listed instead of 10

[Holger Wansing <linux@wansing-online.de>]

Hi,

Mariano Lazzaro <marianolazzaro@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


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