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Re: Bug#514237: debian-cd: Support non-i386 mirrors, and support D-I modules in non-main



On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 12:14:02AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
>On Wednesday 11 February 2009, Steve McIntyre wrote:
>> In fact, simply looking at the lenny RC2 images you can see that
>> sources are in alphabetical order. We may as well simply not do
>> anything in the $(TASKDIR): target for a source-only build and save
>> the processing time. Agreed?
>
>I don't know. I'd have to check in detail why tasks get ignored (for which 
>I'm not motivated)

Because source-only discs do nothing with the tasks at all.

>and IMO this is the wrong time to be making such changes
>anyway. You're not going to get any real testing or feedback anymore
>before the release.

Understood. I'm looking into this now to help fix the bugs Enrico
raised, which I'm told are causing real problems for CDD users. From
review of the code, I'm quite certain it's not going to affect us for
our builds, but it should make a big difference for others.

-- 
Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve@einval.com
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