Re: Plans for debian-cd

[George Danchev <danchev@spnet.net>]

On Monday 13 June 2005 03:50, Steve McIntyre wrote:
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>  * (Related) Stop using apt-ftparchive. This is now one of the most
>    time-consuming steps in a CD build, and is unnecessary. Instead, it
>    should be possible to parse the Packages and Sources files that we
>    have to start with. Then, generate Packages and Sources files for
>    the CDs as we copy the relevant files into the temporary tree.

There has been already some kind of code around which should be investigated 
how to be involved in such situations. The package debmirror scans 
Packages/Sources files and supports --include and --exclude options which 
should be possible to achive a partial mirror with just desired packages 
feeded by debian-cd. I'm not sure if apt-move could be of any help here also.

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