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Re: busybox in main



On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 01:59:06PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> My understanding is that the new d-i archive will work essentially
> as follows:
> 
> 	dists/ stable/ main/
> 		binary-i386/
> 			various .debs
> 		disks-i386/
> 			various .udebs
> 			some basic boot-floppies
> 			release notes
> 		source/
> 			source to all the .debs and .udebs

I don't like this scheme because it's assuming either/or with debian-installer vs
boot-floppies.  Forcing this either/or decision is going to make releasing woody a lot
harder.

> Would it be possible, do people think, to have (eg) a release-notes.udeb
> from which a script on ftp-master automatically extracts the release notes
> and dumps them somewhere useful? Ditto vmlinuz, and the boot-floppies
> themselves?

Um, I don't know -- w.r.t. boot-floppies, probably not.  

-- 
.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>



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