On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 06:33:06PM +0200, Jan Kesten wrote: >Hi! > >> 1. We need to refactor the code; the top-level Makefile is a mess, >> and there are far too many hacks in the codebase that make it >> impossible to maintain > >I'm looking forward to refactoring :-) I tried to fully understand >debian-cd but failed much to often in the past; now a 'new start' will >give me a chance to perhaps contribute something in future :-) *grin* Any help will be appreciated... >> 5. More intelligence in debian-cd >> 6. Actual layout of the CDs could be better >> A much better way would be to check sizes as each file is copied >> into the temporary tree, and Packages and Sources files generated >> by copying stanzas in to match. By keeping careful track of how > >Great idea - and I think it will not very hard to implement. I did some >kind of this before, just for filling up backup-cds. It was a rather >small python script, that created a temporary destination for the cd and >then started to fill it up with symlinks to the actual files - keeping >track of the amount of data size. If I still have it, I can publish it - >maybe it's useful? Maybe... I have code to do something like this already, and I agree it's not especially hard to implement IME. >> 9. Are business card ISOs actually useful? >> CD media is also much more difficult. Do people still think the >> effort to create these is useful? > >They are just nice - tried them out and having them fit on a business >card cd is fun. But for real life a netinst image is much more useful. Exactly, that's a common feeling. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. steve@einval.com "C++ ate my sanity" -- Jon Rabone
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