Heyho, todays Squeeze Point Release made on thing obvious: The location of the installer files on the mirrors in dists/ is somewhat crap. What happens at point release time (provided a d-i update is included) is that the mirror sync goes and deletes the installer files from the proposed-updates directory and then goes to transfer them all again into the stable directory. That is a 2GB transfer thats entirely unneeded.
What I want to do now is to go and put all the installer-* directories into /d-i/ on our mirrors. The directories in dists/$SUITE would only contain symlinks for their version over to the ones in /d-i/. Basically, the idea behind pool/ all over, just for d-i. As far as I can see this should be possible to get implemented now without causing any trouble, as we keep all the current places alive (using symlinks), but I wanted to confirm with you that this is really the case and I don't miss anything important in d-i. If you don't have anything, I would want to change the stuff during the meeting next week. -- bye, Joerg <GyrosGeier> I've annoyed Ganneff enough with that package already, no reason to top it off by a build-depend on emacs for writing control files
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