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Re: Live filesystem on CDs



John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org> writes:

> 
> On Wed, 12 Feb 1997, Mike Neuffer wrote:
> 
> > > Personally, I would go for seperate i386 and m68k CD's, both with source.
> > 
> > It doesn't fit (i386 + source) on one CD. However we had a number
> > of orders for 68k CDs and i386+68k binaries fit on one CD at the moment.
> 
> Hmm, just an observation here.  (Not necessarily directed at you, Mike.)
> Are *all* packages that are compressed with gzip compressed with gzip -9?
> Including all .orig.tar.gz files, .diff.gz, etc.?  If not, this may be a
> way to save some space for now.

The gzip call for these files is done by dpkg-source, so the gzip
options are determined by dpkg-source and not by the developer.

	Sven
-- 
Sven Rudolph <sr1@inf.tu-dresden.de> ; WWW : http://www.sax.de/~sr1/


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