Re: Bug#612074: debian-cd: provide iso image aligned on usb thumb drive size
On Wed, 2011-02-23 at 14:43 +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> For now, I've added code to debian-cd to allow for configuration to
> specify use of a specified disk type (i.e. size), but then to
> over-ride the size for *all* the images (as I did for the KDE CDs for
> squeeze), and/or a single specific image number.
Does this mean a random user (maybe not so random but...) can easily use
debian-cd to cook his own unofficial disk saying “I have an usb thumb
drive which is 3.141G and would like to put as much packages as I can on
it”?
>
> Then I'm going to make DVD#1 limit to 4GB for amd64, i386 and the
> amd64/i386 m-a DVD. Then it'll fit on a 4GB stick too, and I think
> that's useful. The rest of the set will still fill up to the normal
> 4.7GB DVD size, as there's no point to keeping to that limit on later
> discs. Other arches and source DVDs will also not be affected -
> there's also no point messing with them AFAICS. Please correct me if
> you think I'm wrong here!
Yeah, no use for the rest of the set. 4G is nice, will the removed 700M
contain useful stuff which will miss to our users? (Agreed that it might
not make sense for other arches than amd64 and i386).
>
> For a 1GB or 2GB (or even 8GB/16GB) image, we *can* add more builds
> targetted to fit those sizes, but I would rather make those be totally
> separate builds; they're not close enough to any of the current
> standard sizes that we generate IMHO.
Yup, agreed.
>
> Thoughts?
>
Thanks for your work :)
Regards,
--
Yves-Alexis
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