RE: Why Debian 8.1 has no torrents beyond first 3 DVD ISO images

[Arno Schuring <aelschuring@hotmail.com>]

> From: curty@free.fr
> Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2015 18:12:11 +0000
> On 2015-06-14, John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> wrote:
>> arnuld uttre writes:
>>> Well, I need many packages which normal users don't use, like stumpwm,
>>> ppcre, sbcl, clisp, gcc, mpd, gmpc, feh, theora etc. I have used
>>> Debian Sarge (and in those days I only had CDs) and I noticed some
>>> package I wanted were only in last few CDs
>>
>> You don't need the source packages nor the ones for architectures other
>> than your own.
>
> Without having researched the question, is there a simple way
> of knowing which dvds contain what (a package list or something)?

Yes, the list-cd/ and list-dvd/ subdirectories on the cdimage server:

$ wget http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/list-dvd/debian-8.1.0-amd64-DVD-{1..13}.list.gz
[..]
$ zgrep -E '^(stumpwm|cl-ppcre|sbcl|gcl|mpd|gmpc|feh|libtheora0)_' * | cut -d: -f1|sort|uniq
debian-8.1.0-amd64-DVD-1.list.gz
debian-8.1.0-amd64-DVD-2.list.gz
debian-8.1.0-amd64-DVD-3.list.gz
debian-8.1.0-amd64-DVD-5.list.gz
debian-8.1.0-amd64-DVD-6.list.gz


Regards,
Arno