Re: Wheezy size -- only 3 DVD ISO image files listed instead of 10
Hi,
Mariano Lazzaro <marianolazzaro@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi! I've seen today that Wheezy was officially released 2 days ago!
> Great news!
>
> There is something that I cannot understand, why does this release fit
> on 3 DVDs? (at least for AMD64 arch)
>
> But on the debian main site says over 37500 packages, and I'm using
> Debian 6 which has 29000 packages and it's 8 DVDs long.
>
> So, is this Debian 7 release "thinner" than its predecessor or are you
> using some "new and nasty" compression algorithm to get the 37500
> packages on 3 DVDs? (I ask out of ignorance)
There are 3 DVDs listed on
http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/7.0.0/amd64/iso-dvd/
so far you are right.
But following the jigdo link to
http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/7.0.0/amd64/jigdo-dvd/
I see 10 DVDs.
So this is probably a case for debian-cd? (in CC)
Cheers
Holger
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