The Hurd archive
I have created a Hurd sub-set of my Debian mirror based on the Hurd
Packages lists containing main, contrib, non-US and non-free. The
Packages lists generated from the Hurd sub-set exactly match those of the
Hurd lists in the original mirror. This means that no packages were
excluded and the packages from alpha.gnu.org were not included.
I suppose this should be cause for celebration, but the size of the Hurd
sub-set is 1600 Mb (1.6 gig). Can anyone shed any light on this? The
hurd-D1 CD was just a single CD and my expectations were for a mirror
sub-set of about 1000 Mb.
By no means all the problems are in pool. I checked Netscape and found
that there were a number Netscape bits and pieces in ./binary-all, in the
Hurd Packages lists.
The hurd-F1-main will be able to cope with this because of dependency
checking and no doubt the hurd-F1-extra can be kept down to size through
an exclusion list. But there is a major problem in building the Packages
lists for the official Debian archive and this will become more obtrusive
as time goes on.
Phil.
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