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Re: m68k boot-floppies for woody



"Christian T. Steigies" <cts@debian.org> writes:

> If we could change the bf-archive install script a little, the amount of
> files uploaded could be significantly reduced without loosing anything.
> Currently we build [amiga|atari|mac|*vme*]install.tar.gz files so that
> potential users have to download only one archive (and in earlier times the
> base). However the contents of all these files is duplicated in
> bf-base.tar.gz, which is an awful waste of space, and bandwidth when
> uploading via a 33k6 link. Can we change the install script to unpack the
> *inatt.tar.gz files and drop bf-root completely (unless there is something
> in bf-root which is not in any of the other files of course)?

Sure, go nuts.  Just don't break any other arches...

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



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