Re: Wheezy release: CDs are not big enough any more...

[Bálint Réczey <balint@balintreczey.hu>]

Hi,

2012/5/14, Marco d'Itri <md@linux.it>:
> On May 14, Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl> wrote:
>
>> Ie, the problem is not in d-i, but in running debootstrap on foreign
>> systems.  And that's indeed not easily fixable :(
> Do we actually have an official debootstrap package for foreign systems?
> We could ship a static busybox with it and solve this and other issues.
> (I know, not all the world is a VAX, etc... But we cannot solve *every*
> problem.)
>
> If the problem is "foreign systems without xz" then we will never be
> able to use XZ for base.
How about switching to xz in the standard installer and providing an
alternate installer with recompressed packages using gzip/bz2?

This would allow us to support most systems and save on bandwidth/mirror space.

Cheers,
Balint