Re: Bits from the Debian CD team
Steve McIntyre pisze:
> Hi folks,
>
> It's probably time for a quick update on what we've been up to
> lately in terms of producing Debian CD and DVD and (!) BD images.
>
> That will give the game away for the biggest change that has happened
> lately - we're now producing some Blu-ray images alongside the
> existing CD and DVD images with each weekly Lenny build. As a standard
> Blu-ray disc will hold up to 25GB of data, that means that, for the
> first time in several years, users should be able to fit all of the
> packages for one architecture on a single disc. Woo!
>
> The downside of adding yet another image type is that potentially we
> could use up huge amounts more disk space and bandwidth on our central
> servers and our mirrors to accommodate them. What I've done,
> therefore, is start imposing limits on which images we will produce
> each week and with Lenny when it ships. What we now have is (in
> increasing order of size):
>
> * Business card and netinst CDs for all architectures (except s390),
> available for download as ISO, torrent and jigdo. As for Etch,
> we'll also have 2 multi-arch netinst CDs (i386/amd64/powerpc and
> alpha/hppa/ia64).
>
> * Full CD sets for all architectures:
> + i386, amd64 and source will all be available for download as ISO,
> torrent and jigdo
> + for powerpc we will create ISOs/torrents for the first 8 CDs
> only (with the rest as jigdo)
> + for other architectures we'll have ISOs/torrents for the first 3
> CDs only (rest as jigdo)
>
> * Full DVD sets for all architectures:
> + i386, amd64 and source will all be available for download as ISO,
> torrent and jigdo
> + for other architectures we'll have ISOs/torrents for the first 1
> DVD only (rest as jigdo)
> + again, the show giveaway DVD: multi-arch i386/amd64/powerpc/source
> containing as much as will fit on a single DVD
>
> * BD for 3 architectures:
> + Single images available for i386, amd64 and source, *jigdo only*
>
> There's scope for more options here; we could do a multi-arch
> i386/amd64 BD image if desired, and that would fit on a dual-layer
> disc. Other architectures are possible on BD, *except* powerpc is
> problematic: the genisoimage code to produce the hybrid ISO9660/HFS
> filesystem needed for powerpc fails utterly on such a large image.
>
> Some stats might help here, too. Currently we're looking at a *lot* of
> potential images for each full set, and this explains why we're
> starting to cut down now!
>
> CD DVD BD
> alpha 31 5 1
> amd64 34 5 1
> arm 30 4 1
> armel 31 5 1
> hppa 30 5 1
> i386 33 5 1
> ia64 35 5 1
> mips 32 5 1
> mipsel 32 5 1
> multi-arch 0 1 1
> powerpc 34 5 1
> s390 32 5 1
> source 28 4 1
> sparc 32 5 1
> -----------------------------------------
> TOTAL 414 64 13
>
> Daniel Baumann nd the rest of the debian-live team are also working on
> official live images that we'll release with Lenny for the first
> time. I've got some ideas of what he's planning in terms of options,
> but I'll let him tell you in more detail (nudge, nudge *grin*).
>
> If you have any questions about what I've mentioned here, or any
> suggestions on other things we could/should be doing (such as the
> numbers of ISOs we're making for your pet architecture), please bring
> them up on the debian-cd list.
>
> We're also going to be looking for testers very soon to help us verify
> the d-i RC1 and Lenny releases. If you'd like to help, please let us
> know.
>
> Cheers,
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