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Re: Ridiculously large packages



On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:21:27 +0000
Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 04:18:54PM +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> >On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 05:01:07PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
> >>On Friday 20 November 2009, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> >>> 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.
> >>
> >>Would it be possible to generate a list of excluded packages and
> >>add that as a README on CD1?
> >
> >Good idea, yes.
> 
> And I now have code to generate the following as README.excluded on
> CD1: (example from currently-running squeeze i386 CD run)
> 
> ==========================================================
> For size reasons, the following packages were excluded from this disc
> set:
> 
> nexuiz-data
> openarena-data
> 
> and that caused the following packages to be removed because of
> dependencies:

Could this say 'to be excluded becauase'

> ==========================================================
> 


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