Re: CDs

[Steve McIntyre <stevem@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

On Sat, 6 Mar 1999, Steve Dunham wrote:

>Steve McIntyre <stevem@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes:
>
>> So, where are we up to for sparc/alpha. The m68k stuff is sorted now, as
>> is the i386. Where have we got to on fixing the last few dependencies?
>> I've added "exclude" support to slink_cd as a last-miute hack to allow us
>> to simply lose any final problem packages, I'll be sending this out 
>later.
>> I'm going to be building the m68k, i386 and source CD images overnight on
>> cdimage.debian.org ready for people to test them...
>
>How exactly does "exclude" work?  Does it rebuild all of the Packages
>files or just the master ones for the CD?

Just the ones for the CD. It works as a modifier in the genlist stage -
where it used to check for which of the first 2 CDs a main package should
go on, there's now a third option EXCLUDED where the package will simply
be ignored. The syntax is simple - exclude-$ARCH should list package
names.

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