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Re: "Official CD" screwups (Was: Why only one non-free section?)




> > I have the LSL Official CD and it doesn't contain contrib.
> > I had to buy a Gold CDR to get contrib on CD...

Joseph Carter wrote:
 
> 	1. We can ask the vendors to not refer to their CD-ROM distributions
> 	   as "official" unless they are direct burns or presses of the
> 	   official CD-ROM images available at cdimage.debian.org and
> 	   mirrors.

If the Debian web site had a better description of the directory structure
an official CD should have, it would help.  Then I could easily compare the
CD I purchased to the web site.  I didn't even know that an official CD
should include `contrib' before I ordered hamm.  

------------------------
Side note:

On my CDs: contrib is 200MB
           binary-i386 + binary-all + disks-i386 is 594 MB
           source is 617 MB
           ________________
  total:   1411 MB

This does not fit on two CDs, so I can't see how this is possible.

My i386 binary CD looks like (edited output of `du`):

 boot
 debian/dists
 debian/doc/FAQ
 debian/doc/package-developer
 debian/hamm/hamm/binary-all/
    {admin base comm devel doc editors electronics games graphics hamradio
     interpreters libs mail math misc net news oldlibs otherosfs shells
     sound tex text utils web x11}
 debian/hamm/hamm/binary-i386/
    {admin base comm devel doc editors electronics games graphics hamradio
     interpreters libs mail math misc net news oldlibs otherosfs shells
     sound tex text utils web x11}
 debian/hamm/hamm/disks-i386/2.0.10_1998-07-21
 debian/tools
 install
 tools/fips15
 tools/fips15c
 tools/lodlin16/debian
 tools/lodlin16/doc
 tools/lodlin16
 tools/rawrite1
 tools/rawrite2
 tools
 upgrade

My contrib CD looks like:

 debian/doc/FAQ
 debian/doc/package-developer
 debian/hamm/contrib/binary-all/
    {admin base comm devel doc editors electronics games graphics hamradio
     interpreters libs mail math misc net news oldlibs otherosfs shells
     sound tex text utils web x11}
 debian/hamm/contrib/binary-alpha/
    {admin base comm devel doc editors electronics games graphics hamradio
     interpreters libs mail math misc net news oldlibs otherosfs shells
     sound tex text utils web x11}
 debian/hamm/contrib/binary-i386/
    {admin base comm devel doc editors electronics games graphics hamradio
     interpreters libs mail math misc net news oldlibs otherosfs shells
     sound tex text utils web x11}
 debian/hamm/contrib/binary-m68k/
    {admin base comm devel doc editors electronics games graphics hamradio
     interpreters libs mail math misc net news oldlibs otherosfs shells
     sound tex text utils web x11}
 debian/hamm/contrib/source/
    {admin base comm devel doc editors electronics games graphics hamradio
     interpreters libs mail math misc net news oldlibs otherosfs shells
     sound tex text utils web x11}
 debian/hamm/hamm/source/x11
 
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