Re: CD Release Suggestion

["David R. Townsend" <dt@kokovoko.com>]

Steve and Steve,

Thank you both VERY much for this information!!!

Best regards,
David Townsend

On Oct 8, 2012, at 8:22 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 09:10:24PM +0100, Steven Chamberlain wrote:
> > On 03/10/12 23:47, David R. Townsend wrote:
> > > [...] it would be really helpful to
> > > me to have a Table of Contents (TOC) for my targeted CD set so I can
> > > peruse and figure out what to download and what not.  It would be  
> > > great
> > > to see all the contents at a glance!!!
> >
> > Hi David,
> >
> > The *.list.gz files on the CD mirror sites are probably what you are
> > looking for.  There are many directories containing these lists
> > (gzip-compressed text files) - for each release/arch/install media  
> > type
> > - but for example here are the package lists for Squeeze amd64 CDs:
> >
> > http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.6/amd64/list-cd/
> >
> > And one more example:  package lists for the amd64 DVD test images,
> > rebuilt each week for the upcoming Wheezy release:
> >
> > http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/amd64/list-dvd/
>
> See
>
>   http://www.debian.org/CD/faq/#search-for-package
>
> and
>
>   http://www.debian.org/CD/faq/#list-image-contents
>
> --
> Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                 
> steve@einval.com
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