Re: Distribution on multiple CDs
On Tue, 8 Apr 1997, Martin Schulze wrote:
> Brian C. White writes:
> > > Given the current growth rate of the number of packages in the
> > > distribution, I think we'll soon have to split the binary distribution on
> > > 2 CDs. Has something been planned to modify dpkg to handdle this?
> > > (And if not, does anyone have ideas onhow implement this?)
> >
> > How big is the binary distribution right now?
>
> Looking at my mirror:
> Sum:
> rex 217MB
> rex+non-free+contrib 293MB
> bo 334MV
> bo+non-free+contrib 410MB
so the growth was 123 MB between rex and bo...
410 + 123 = 533 MB (still fits on a single CD)
but...
> So at the moment even all binaries fit on on CD-ROm, but I believe
> the next release or at least the release after that one will have
> problems with it. For rex I had to create a second cd containing
> source files.
Right, this will probably not work with 2.0 since now we only have i386+m68k.
2.0 should also have alpha, sparc (and maybe some ppc). So we'll have to
split binaries on at leat 2 CDs. (although the binaries for a given arhc.
will probably still fit on a single CD).
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