Re: F1 CDs

[Philip Charles <philipc@copyleft.co.nz>]

Thanks,

On 23 Mar 2001, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote:

> Philip Charles <philipc@copyleft.co.nz> writes:
> 
> > Question.  How many files can a directory contain? 
> 
> What filesystem? ext2? iso?
> 
> I just created a directory with 10000 files and successfully run
> mkisoimg on it. So both of those filesystems should have no problem in
> with a few thousand files.

Ext2.  So I have no problems here.
 
> > With no exclusion list, but with full dependency checking, the Hurd CDs
> > now have ~1 gig of packages.  There may be problems in identifying what
> > can be excluded to halve this.

I have managed to get both main and extra CDs down to 600 meg, hopefully
without removing anything useful. -doc packages were a major target along
with kernel, netscape et al, lg, and Linux documentation.

I can get the F1 CDs out the door.  Monday D.V?

> Hmm, I count 1652 Architecture: all packages in Debian. Classifying
> them all into linux-all vs. really-all will be some work. Maybe you
> should start applying some heuristics. A few from the top of my head:
> 
The way the Debian archive is organised at the moment is a pain in the
butt, but that is the way it is.

What I would like to see is something like this,

Main archive -> Hurd sub-set -> [filters] -> CD sub-set.  I had hoped that
the Hurd sub-set would have been enough.

Now if someone could come up with the filters ...

Phil.

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