El Fri, May 07, 2004 at 07:04:07PM +0200, C. Gatzemeier escribió: > Am Wednesday 05 May 2004 09:46 schrieb Sergio Talens-Oliag: > > > The reduced mirror makes sense for the School Servers, for example. > > Using our package lista and debmirror they can have an updated local > > copy of the supported packages using less diskspace and less bandwith. > > You can use apt-cache for this, you know? I am using it and it works out > great. Granted the visible list of packages is not reduced (without debtags). > But I didn't really understand yet why you'd want to subset the packages list > down anyway. Just makes installing the next little utility not in your subset > harder than a simple apt-get install. Well, it depends on what do you plan to use this Package and/or Source lists for, there are many ways to do partial mirrors, but that's not the main reason for this, I only mentioned it as a thing it can be used for. If you want the full Debian you use the standard apt-source line and nothing changes, that's O.K., but my idea is that the users of the reduced Packages list don't want or need anything outside the CDD. > Don't know if the install CD generation does have anything to do with the > packages list or if uses other information like the maybe dpkg selections. Yes, this reduced Packages and Sources lists can be used to build install CDs for a CDD, but as I said before that's not the reason of having this tool. Anyway, if I implement this you don't need to use it, it's just that I think I'll use it. Sergio. -- Sergio Talens-Oliag <sto@debian.org> <http://people.debian.org/~sto/> Key fingerprint = 29DF 544F 1BD9 548C 8F15 86EF 6770 052B B8C1 FA69
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