Slink not installable from CDs

[Martin Schulze <joey@finlandia.Infodrom.North.DE>]

Hi,

I brought it up already but nobody jumped on.

Slink currently cannot be installed on a single-cd system using cd images.

finlandia!joey(tty11):~> grep '^Size:' /pub/debian/dists/slink/main/binary-i386/Packages|awk '{sum+=$2} END{print sum / 1024 / 1024}'
764.438
finlandia!joey(tty11):~> grep '^Size:' /pub/debian/dists/slink/main/binary-m68k/Packages|awk '{sum+=$2} END{print sum / 1024 / 1024}'
589.751

So, slink is more than 760 Megabytes big for i386 machines.  This
does not fit on one single CD.  This means that even without contrib,
non-free, non-US etc. we already need two cds.

This needs to be addressed quick!

Heiko Schlittermann has written a new dselect installation method
that supports multiple cds.[1]  The reason why he hasn't uploaded
it yet is that it depends on a hax0red version of dpkg-scanpackages
to support a new field for each package "CD" which contains the
CD on which the package is stored.

Phil, as debian-cd maintainer and maintainer of the OfficialCD, I'd
like to hear your oppinion.

Guy, or who the current maintainer of dpkg-scanpackges is, I'd also
like to hear your oppionon about adding an "--cd <n>" option to
dpkg-scanpackages.


Regards,

	Joey

[1] ftp://ftp.datom.de/pub/people/heiko/debian/dpkg-multicd/

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