Re: CD release announcement
On Thu, 30 May 2002, Richard Atterer wrote:
> Another related question: At the moment, jigdo-mirror does not allow
> you to filter which images it should create and which not. People
> using it will only be able to mirror all 88 images, there's no way to
> prevent it from creating e.g. binary-3 to binary-7, or the non-us CDs.
> Should I modify it to allow such filtering?
Most definitely yes. Many site only mirror i386.
> The images of the current stable distribution ("potato") need 13 GB of
> disc space for 22 CD images. In contrast to this, the full set of
> "woody" CDs needs about 53 GB for 88 CD images! [The 88 is 8*10 + 8
> source.]
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> Because we expect that most mirror admins do not want to dedicate so
> much space to CD images, by default not all CD images will be made
> available, only a subset which will take about 21 GB for 34 CD images.
> (We omit CDs 3-8 for the 9 non-Intel architectures.)
Let people choose. Filtering. Unless Phil Hands wants to limit the
number.
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> [Is this correct? Will PIK-style .list files be generated? Will the
> rsync/http/ftp paths stay the same?]
I hope so, particulaly rsync. There will be dud jigdo images. PIK and
debian-cd can be used to produce starting images for use with rsync.
Phil.
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