Re: 2.2r4 CD images
jason andrade <jason@dstc.edu.au> writes:
> On 7 Nov 2001, Philip Hands wrote:
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> > Hi,
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> > I've made (as yet unreleased) images for 2.2r4, and put them here:
> >
> > rsync://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd-test/
>
> yay.. i'm pseudo image kitting them as we speak.
>
> > They will be moved to the normal place once I get a few reports that
> > they look OK, but please don't assume that they are the release
> > version (and get thousands of them pressed, say) until that happens,
> > and the MD5SUMS files have been GPG signed by me.
>
> oki doki. should we make them available at all (with the above proviso?)
Yeah, why not -- any change should only involve a quick rsync, and
anyway, I think they're OK, so it won't even need that..
> > Note that the images have the potato*.raw style names at present, so
> > take appropriate measures to make sure they get rsync-ed over your
> > current images, by perhaps renaming yours, or specifying both from &
> > to names to rsync.
>
> will they get renamed to .iso when they're fully "released" ?
They will be put into the normal 2-directory-trees-with-hardlinks
setup. In case people have not noticed, the 2.2_r3 directory, and the
potato_test directory contain pretty much the same thing, but the
filename are different, to differentiate between tests and releases.
When I release, I create a new directory tree (2.2_r4 in this case)
and replace the files under potato_test, hard-linking them into the
versioned directory.
What this means is, that if you use rsync to mirror both trees (with
the --hard-links option), then you will not have to download the whole
of the new image, because the names in the potato_test branch do not
change, and the --hard-links option, with --delete, will sort out the
2.2_r3 --> 2.2_r4 change.
> > If you're not sure what I'm on about, you're probably better off
> > waiting until they are released.
>
> i've had a number of enquiries about this.. in terms of disk space, i'm
> also wondering for how long i need to keep the 2.2_r3 images in place
> once 2.2_r4 is "released".
I'd delete them straight away (that's what I do on the master site.
Here is the size info:
phil@open:/debian3/test-area$ du
2446200 ./i386
2508504 ./src
2223436 ./sparc
2167476 ./m68k
2403800 ./alpha
2178724 ./powerpc
1948364 ./arm
15876508 .
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Cheers, Phil.
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