In gmane.linux.debian.devel.general Joey Hess <jo...@debian.org> wrote: > Steve McIntyre wrote: >> There are uses I've heard about, including (apparently quite common) >> using CDs and DVDs to seed a mirror on a Windows server.
> If I had to chose between that working, and not needing to worry about > filename lengths, I'd choose the latter. >> >Is it possible to provide Joliet filenames for only a subset of files? >> It is, yes. But not something I'd like to do if we can avoid it. > One approach then would be to omit joliet filenames for the few long > packages. This would not even impact your use case above much, since > any mirror seeded from files from CDs needs a further sync step. Hello, An alternative approach would be to use a different *filename* while keeping the package name unchanged (This could be done on both mirrors and CD.) Iirc apt/dpkg have absolutely no problem with "foo.deb" containing version 1:3.2.1-11+squeeze2 of the openoffice.org-report-builder-bin i386 package. I do not know about dak, though. cu andreas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-cd-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/2mr668-ua7....@argenau.downhill.at.eu.org
