On Thu, Aug 27, 1998 at 08:05:39PM +1000, Tyson Dowd wrote: > On 27-Aug-1998, Michael Bramer <michael@weh.rwth-aachen.de> wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 27, 1998 at 07:31:07PM +1000, Tyson Dowd wrote: > > > On 27-Aug-1998, Michael Bramer <grisu@debian.org> wrote: > > > > We don't make a new CD-set. The next CD-set is Debian slink aka Debian 2.1. > > > > Now we make only a 'patch-CD' from hamm-unstable. > > > > > > > > Is this a solution? > > > Not really, because the patch CD is just as expensive to manufacture > > > make as a new CD, and the easiest way to make a patch CD is in fact > > > to just update the CD! > > > > > > If the binary CD ever stretches over 2 CDs, then there is a reasonable > > > idea. However it's still good to let people create 2.0 rX silvers, > > > it's just that we don't want to force them to throw out perfectly good > > > 2.0 rX-1 silvers to do that. > > I don't see your point. > > > > Our CD-Set is not only a CD. If we make a new CD-Set we must make a new > > version of all CD's. (Binary and source). But we can make one Patch-CD with > > binary and source for all architectures. > > Although technically you are correct, practically very few people > need all architectures, and a source patch is not that vital. I don't agree. The new source diff.gz is vital. If the user check the patch, if the user build his own *.deb with special options. We distribute free software and it is vatal for debian distribute source code too! > But we could do it, I suppose. > > The problem is, r1 patch CDs aren't worth much when r2 patch CDs > come out -- they will have all the r1 patches plus more. Anyone who > wants a patch CD would not settle for anything but the latest (why else > would you buy a patch CD if not to get the latest fixes). > > So you're really just going to delay the problem one revision. Realy? We build a CD-set, after 2-3 month (or every month) we make a patch-cd with all new stable packages, after 3-5 month we make a new CD-set. in the first case, we have only one patch-cd between the set's. no problem (I prefer this case) in the other case (patch-cd every month), we have no silver cd. This cd are gold cd. > I've CC:ed it in the reply. ok. I see :-) Grisu -- Michael Bramer - a Debian Certified Linux Developer http://www.debian.org PGP: finger grisu@master.debian.org -- Linux Sysadmin -- Use Debian Linux "Now let me explain why this makes intuitive sense." --- Prof. Larry Wasserman
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