Re: Hamm CD's
On Tue, 26 May 1998, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> I have published this before, and got little feedback on it, so I will try
> again here. The best solution that I can see for dealing with the grouth
> of Debian as reflected in hamm, is to organize the packages by priority.
>
> All of the packages with standard priority or higher will fit on one CD,
> source and binary together. These packages, by definition depend on
> nothing of lower priority, so any or all may be installed without
> unsatisfied dependencies.
>
> For the next CDs it is only necessary to organize the optional and extra
> packages into CD bundles that are self installable. That is, once you have
> installed all of the "standard" packages, then all of the packages on the
> second CD are organized to only depend on standard packages or others on
> this CD. All of the remaining packages should fit on a third CD with all
> their dependencies met on that CD. (note also that source and binary
> should both go on the same CD.)
>
> This would allow dselect and friends to simply step through each CD.
> Install all of the first, then only what you need from the second and
> third in additional sessions with dselect or apt. With a little care all
> dependencies can be dealt with on a per-CD basis.
What happens if I try to install something that is in extra that depends
on something from standard and I didn't bother to install it? The only
way around this (that I see) is for apt (and other methods) to have a way
to prompt the user to change cd's but order package installs to minimize
swaping (with your method, it becomes a signle straight through pass, I
like that). It needs to update itself with a multi-cd package file, or do
a pass through all the cd's.
I'm hoping for a better way,
Brandon
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