Re: possible error in potato-i386-1.list
[Sorry for the late answer; I'm just way too busy these days..] On Sat, 14 Apr 2001, John Marcum wrote: > I have been trying to make a copy of the Debian CD-ROM and the > "potato-i386-1.list" seems to have an error, typo most likely. The > following three line have commas instead of underscore in the file name. > Or it could be that they were changed by my system during the download. I'm > using windows 95! > > /dists/potato/main/upgrade-i386/source/apt,debian,control > /dists/potato/main/upgrade-i386/source/dpkg,debian,control > /dists/potato/main/upgrade-i386/source/dpkg,Makefile.conf.in Actually, these commas are correct. But if Windows can't grok them, that's no problem, rsync will still produce a complete CD image (as you hopefully already noticed ;-) Regards, Anne Bezemer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: "Pseudo-Image Kit" minor info update
On Sun, 15 Apr 2001, Mathew H Stewart wrote: > I just finished using the "Pseudo-Image Kit" to get the iso image of > 2.2_rev2 and wanted to comment on one minor thing in the "readme.txt" > file. (btw, I was using the Windows .zip version) > > The example of the rsync command still shows /2.1/ as part of the path > and while I was aware that I was downloading 2.2_rev2 I got goofed by > the use of underlined text in the ftp directories when I looked at them > for the actual path. I tried using /2.2 rev2/ and recieved an error > message (of course) I would suggest modifying the "readme.txt" to show > /2.2_rev2/. Actually, I intentionally used an old example because the real path changes every few months, and I'm not prepared to release new versions of the Kit that often (or "at all", really ;-) But, if I ever do a new release, I might as well change it into, say, /2.1_rev5/ to better match the current path structure. Thanks for the feedback, Anne Bezemer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pseudo-image rational
On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, Vagn Scott wrote: > Paul Smith wrote: > > > > just curious about the rational behind the cd-image creation process. why is > > the pseudo-image step necessary? why not just rsync or ftp the .iso file > > from a mirror? since the rsync step fills in the blanks, so to speak, of the > > pseudo-image step anyway, it seems like two steps when really just one of > > them would work. > > Most people get bits from the local hard disk a lot faster than > they get bits over the network. The psuedo-image kit finishes in > minutes, instead of hours, on most "fast" connections. That's one part of the story; the other is that we have only a few CD image mirrors and about 250 packages mirrors, and the Kit does a great job to distribute the used bandwidth more evenly between all mirrors. Remember that every single bit flowing from any of the Debian mirrors is sponsored by someone, and this way the people who invested in big disks for the CD images don't have to pay that much for their net connection. Regards, Anne Bezemer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cvs commit to debian-cd/tools by hertzog
Repository: debian-cd/tools who:hertzog time: Wed Apr 25 15:27:55 PDT 2001 Log Message: * Now correctly parses the Release file (it broke when SHA1 field has been added). * TODO: Still have to generate the SHA1 field for the main tree. Files: changed:add_secured scanpackages scansources -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
2.2r3 test images
Hi, You'll be pleased to hear that I gave open.hands.com (a.k.a cdimage.debian.org) a brain transplant today, so instead of being an Athlon on a VIA chipset motherboard, it's now a PIII 750, on an Intel chipset, with 512MB of new RAM Unless we're stunningly unlucky, this should mean that open will be back to a sensible level of stability (it's managed to do a CD production run OK, which is a definite step in the right direction). The new CD images are to be found here: rsync://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/potato_test/ the images are the *.raw files, and are in ISO9660 format (you'll probably have to rename them to *.iso to work with Windoze CD writers) I'm reasonably confident that these images are OK, except that I notice they have the bulkmail binaries on them, which should have been moved to non-free because the license may be discriminatory(against SPAMers ;-) This does mean that bulkmail is present in binary, but not source form, which is also not good. What do people think about this? This matches the (slightly broken) state of the main archive at present, so either I kludge debian-cd to exclude bulkmail, or we wait (and wait?) for the archive to be fixed. In the meantime, these images should be very similar to whatever gets released, so feel free to download and test them, but hold of pressing thousands of them until the versioned directories, with the signed MD5SUMS appear. Note: If you do grab these images, you can later use rsync's -H option to create the hard links without downloading all the images again. You'll need to mirror both the potato_test directory, and the versioned directories at the same time for that to work. Please report how you get on with these images, because the sooner I get positive feadback, the sooner i can declare them official. Cheers, Phil. P.S. I just noticed that the alpha CDs came out with a 698865664 byte CD 1_NONUS, which is too big, so I'll have to re-do them. -- Say no to software patents! http://petition.eurolinux.org/ Philip Hands. +44 (0)20 7744 6244 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Alcove -- Liberating Software http://www.alcove.com/ http://www.hands.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.uk.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 2.2r3 test images
Philip Hands <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What do people think about this? This matches the (slightly broken) > state of the main archive at present, so either I kludge debian-cd > to exclude bulkmail, or we wait (and wait?) for the archive to be > fixed. As I (IIRC) said on IRC, I'd suggest you kludge debian-cd or exclude bulkmail; fixing the archive (without breaking anything else) is non-trivial unfortunately and combined with my current lack of free time I'm not likely to get it done e.g. this week, I'm afraid. -- James -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
rdist
>I noticed on the Debian site there's a kit available to (apparently) roll >your own CD images by using rdist to maintain local copies, which you can >then use to lay out both a cd install image and network archive from which >you can do a network install and incremental package update. >What I'm after is a Linux with a 2.2 kernel that we can seemlessly maintain >and keep current with respect to security patches and other cricial updates. >One we can also burn updated CD images from directly which has all of the >updates since release already in it - for both update and installation >purposes. Another admin sent me this email today - what I want to know is, is this possible? Can someone point me to a URL that would help me with setting a situation like this up? Or a URL which details making customised debian CD's? kind regards, Renai -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
