Steve McIntyre pisze: > Hi folks, > > It's probably time for a quick update on what we've been up to > lately in terms of producing Debian CD and DVD and (!) BD images. > > That will give the game away for the biggest change that has happened > lately - we're now producing some Blu-ray images alongside the > existing CD and DVD images with each weekly Lenny build. As a standard > Blu-ray disc will hold up to 25GB of data, that means that, for the > first time in several years, users should be able to fit all of the > packages for one architecture on a single disc. Woo! > > The downside of adding yet another image type is that potentially we > could use up huge amounts more disk space and bandwidth on our central > servers and our mirrors to accommodate them. What I've done, > therefore, is start imposing limits on which images we will produce > each week and with Lenny when it ships. What we now have is (in > increasing order of size): > > * Business card and netinst CDs for all architectures (except s390), > available for download as ISO, torrent and jigdo. As for Etch, > we'll also have 2 multi-arch netinst CDs (i386/amd64/powerpc and > alpha/hppa/ia64). > > * Full CD sets for all architectures: > + i386, amd64 and source will all be available for download as ISO, > torrent and jigdo > + for powerpc we will create ISOs/torrents for the first 8 CDs > only (with the rest as jigdo) > + for other architectures we'll have ISOs/torrents for the first 3 > CDs only (rest as jigdo) > > * Full DVD sets for all architectures: > + i386, amd64 and source will all be available for download as ISO, > torrent and jigdo > + for other architectures we'll have ISOs/torrents for the first 1 > DVD only (rest as jigdo) > + again, the show giveaway DVD: multi-arch i386/amd64/powerpc/source > containing as much as will fit on a single DVD > > * BD for 3 architectures: > + Single images available for i386, amd64 and source, *jigdo only* > > There's scope for more options here; we could do a multi-arch > i386/amd64 BD image if desired, and that would fit on a dual-layer > disc. Other architectures are possible on BD, *except* powerpc is > problematic: the genisoimage code to produce the hybrid ISO9660/HFS > filesystem needed for powerpc fails utterly on such a large image. > > Some stats might help here, too. Currently we're looking at a *lot* of > potential images for each full set, and this explains why we're > starting to cut down now! > > CD DVD BD > alpha 31 5 1 > amd64 34 5 1 > arm 30 4 1 > armel 31 5 1 > hppa 30 5 1 > i386 33 5 1 > ia64 35 5 1 > mips 32 5 1 > mipsel 32 5 1 > multi-arch 0 1 1 > powerpc 34 5 1 > s390 32 5 1 > source 28 4 1 > sparc 32 5 1 > ----------------------------------------- > TOTAL 414 64 13 > > Daniel Baumann nd the rest of the debian-live team are also working on > official live images that we'll release with Lenny for the first > time. I've got some ideas of what he's planning in terms of options, > but I'll let him tell you in more detail (nudge, nudge *grin*). > > If you have any questions about what I've mentioned here, or any > suggestions on other things we could/should be doing (such as the > numbers of ISOs we're making for your pet architecture), please bring > them up on the debian-cd list. > > We're also going to be looking for testers very soon to help us verify > the d-i RC1 and Lenny releases. If you'd like to help, please let us > know. > > Cheers,
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