On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 07:49:18PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > On Sunday 08 April 2007 19:36, Robert Millan wrote: > > Just about time. Please, can you consider doing this change really > > soon for www.d.o/CD/ (before we miss the just-released effect) ? > > As has been explained to you on IRC a while back, the multi-arch images > are NOT the "perfect, to be preferred for everybody" images that you may > think. I do not think applying the patch as you proposed it is a good > idea, although I do have another commit prepared that will make them a > bit more visible by explaining what they are, without promoting them to > some elevated status. > > My patch would add the following text below the overview of images on the > etch/d-i page: > > *Notes* > o The multi-arch CD images support i386/amd64/powerpc and alpha/hppa/ia64 > respectively; the installation is similar to installing from a single > architecture netinst image. > o The multi-arch DVD image supports i386/amd64/powerpc; the installation > is similar to installing from a single architecture full CD image; the > DVD also includes the source for all included packages. > o For the netinst and businesscard CD images, MD5SUMS and SHA1SUMS files > are available from the same directory as the images.
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