Re: Potato and Woody CD builds

["J.A. Bezemer" <costar@panic.et.tudelft.nl>]

On Fri, 29 Dec 2000, Philip Charles wrote:

> I don't know if anyone else is doing this, but I have built potato and
> woody CD trees using the current archive.  I was suprised how well it
> went.  Potato CDs look as though they would be usable, but there were a
> few unusual "features" in the woody trees, the main one being that a small
> potato file system is included.  I haven't got round to finding out why
> yet, but I suspect that symlinks from woody to potato may have caused

grep Filename: Packages | sort | less

(the main archive Packages file that is, but should look the same on the CDs
of course.)

> this.  pool goes onto the CDs nicely.
> 
> I have not summoned up enough courage to try a build of the Hurd yet.

And while you're at it, it might be an idea to also try unstable (=sid) for
i386 etc.

BTW, how many CDs do woody/sid currently take (binary/source)?


Regards,
  Anne Bezemer