Re: CDs

[Steve Dunham <dunham@cse.msu.edu>]

Steve McIntyre <stevem@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes:

> On Sat, 6 Mar 1999, Steve Dunham wrote:

> >Steve McIntyre <stevem@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes:

> >> So, where are we up to for sparc/alpha. The m68k stuff is sorted now, as
> >> is the i386. Where have we got to on fixing the last few dependencies?
> >> I've added "exclude" support to slink_cd as a last-miute hack to allow us
> >> to simply lose any final problem packages, I'll be sending this out 
> >later.
> >> I'm going to be building the m68k, i386 and source CD images overnight on
> >> cdimage.debian.org ready for people to test them...

> >How exactly does "exclude" work?  Does it rebuild all of the Packages
> >files or just the master ones for the CD?

> Just the ones for the CD. It works as a modifier in the genlist stage -
> where it used to check for which of the first 2 CDs a main package should
> go on, there's now a third option EXCLUDED where the package will simply
> be ignored. The syntax is simple - exclude-$ARCH should list package
> names.

Ok.  When does the CD need to be ready?  There is one last binary
sparc package in incoming, to sync up with the versions in other
architectures.  I can manually merge it into my local archive and
generate the CDs now, or I can wait until dinstall and generate the
CDs late tonight (circa 1800 EST).


Steve
dunham@cse.msu.edu