Re: debian-cd 2.2.13 and woody.
On Mar 16, Philip Charles wrote:
> I am in the process of configuring debian-cd to produce woody images.
> Some interesting results. non-US and non-free (initially) were included.
> cvs was updated earlier today and no change found. The MULTIBOOT option
> was enabled. I am running a woody system.
>
> New base-woody and task-woody files were generated. There were only minor
> differences between the new files and the old that came with debian-cd. A
> seven CD set was then built. Packages with "Task: foo" fields were
> scattered throughout the seven CDs.
>
> A second set was built with COMPLETE=0 and "popularity-contest-woody"
> deactivated along with the other non-essential bits and the result was
> about 1.3 CDs.
>
> A reduced task-woody list was then generated using
>
> cat task.list | while read LINE; do \
> apt-cache dumpavail | grep-dctrl -F Task $LINE -n -s Package;done > \
> task-woody
>
> task.list being a partial list of the available tasks.
>
> A third CD set was built along the lines of the second. The result was
> 1.5 CDs, bigger than the second set. On investigation it was found that
> the latest task-woody was bigger than the original.
>
> A full task-list file was generated using my script. The seven CD set
> built. This time the packages with "Task: foo" were confined to the first
> two CDs with only one of these packages being on the third.
>
> Conclusion 1. The mini script for generating task-list in debian-cd is
> NBG. I cannot see why this is the case.
The script in debian-cd is erroneous, and only picks up the names of
tasks with hyphens in them; I fixed it in CVS a few days back. The
list should now be correct, too.
> For the final build COMPLETE=0 was set and popularity-contest deactivated,
> but the other bits in ../tasks/Debian_woody left active. non-free was
> excluded and non-US included for this build.
>
> Result, the second CD was 500 MB.
>
> Conclusion 2. We will have to do some hard thinking about what should be
> on the first and second CDs.
I can get all of the non-i18n tasks on CD 1 and have space left over
for lots of interesting packages. My gut feeling is that the i18n
tasks can either be on CD #2, or a separate "woody-i18n" set with some
of the other tasks dropped from CD #1 may be appropriate.
As an alternative, I think if you dropped the non-Western European
language tasks (which pull in a lot of fonts and other big packages)
you could still have a decent #1 CD; the ISO-8851-1/15 language tasks
don't bring in a lot of stuff (dictionaries, mainly). But I haven't
tried this.
Chris
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