Re: Ridiculously large packages
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 04:21:21PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
>On Friday 20 November 2009, Steve McIntyre wrote:
>> If you ever want this to be available on Debian CDs, you're going to
>> have to do something about the size. For now, I'm going to blacklist
>> this package altogether.
>
>Even though they do technically still fit on a CD, you may want to consider
>excluding the following packages as well, as including them essentially
>means having roughly 4 CD images dedicated to 9 packages.
>
>534777750 vtk-doc_5.2.1-11_all.deb
>395642608 root-system-doc_5.24.00-1_all.deb
>357422076 sauerbraten-data_0.0.20090504-1_all.deb
>306308472 openarena-data_0.8.1-2_all.deb
>250166552 fgfs-base_1.9.0-1_all.deb
>235440078 kwwidgets-doc_1.0.0~cvs20090825-2_all.deb
>220393788 alien-arena-data_7.0-1_all.deb
>211831974 fgfs-base_1.0.0-2_all.deb
>206728944 ember-media_0.5.7-1_all.deb
>
>The selection was size >200000000 from:
>.../debian/pool$ ls -lR | grep "\.deb$" | awk '{print $5 " " $8}' | \
> sort -rn | head -n 25
For now, I've added a cutoff of 300,000,000 bytes as a maximum package
size for adding to CDs. That means that the following 3 packages will
be dropped from the squeeze CD builds:
306308472 pool/main/o/openarena-data/openarena-data_0.8.1-2_all.deb
534777750 pool/main/v/vtk/vtk-doc_5.2.1-11_all.deb
793400238 pool/main/n/nexuiz-data/nexuiz-data_2.5.2-1_all.deb
The debian-cd code will automatically pick up on dependencies too, so
any packages that *depend* on these will also be dropped.
For DVD and BD disks we'll accept any size (for now).
This should also be added to the release notes, please.
--
Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. steve@einval.com
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