Re: Bug#93612: Support for new archive structure

2001-04-13 Thread Anthony Towns
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 06:28:24AM +, Philip Charles wrote: > > I don't see any additions to the CD set from another site being a concern > > at all, as long as they are properly put in a seperate directory. > If you tie the security too tightly to CD installation custom Debian CD > builders w

Re: Bug#93612: Support for new archive structure

2001-04-13 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 10:42:33PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe écrivait: > It works because you got lucky, you had a CD that was fortunately > constructed properly. It is not supported, and if it does not work, I > totally don't care. Of course, the CDs are constructed properly ! I'm in charge of mai

Re: Bug#93612: Support for new archive structure

2001-04-13 Thread Philip Charles
On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Of course, the CDs are constructed properly ! I'm in charge of maintaining > debian-cd so that it builds "properly constructed" CDs ... > > I don't see why I need to change it to something where CDs are no more > properly constructed ! > > /me grumb

Debian woody and sid unofficial CDs

2001-04-13 Thread Attila Nagy
Hello, FSN.hu's Debian woody and sid unofficial CDs have been updated. The URLs are: ftp://ftp.fsn.hu/pub/CDROM-Images/debian-unofficial http://ftp.fsn.hu/pub/CDROM-Images/debian-unofficial rsync://ftp.fsn.hu/cdimages/debian-unofficial I recommend updating the previous set with rsync, it is ver

Re: Debian woody and sid unofficial CDs

2001-04-13 Thread Attila Nagy
Hello, > FSN.hu's Debian woody and sid unofficial CDs have been updated. Erm, Anne, could you link this message on cdimage.debian.org instead the old one? Thanks, -- Attila Nagye-mail: [E

Re: Debian woody and sid unofficial CDs

2001-04-13 Thread jason andrade
On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, Attila Nagy wrote: > Hello, > > FSN.hu's Debian woody and sid unofficial CDs have been updated. planetmirror.com is updating the woody and sid mirrors. upto cd#3 on woody and sid will start after that. http://planetmirror.com/pub/debian-cd/unofficial/woody/ http://planet

Re: Bug#93612: Support for new archive structure

2001-04-13 Thread Anthony Towns
On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 10:42:33PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > Or if you ask particularly nice I might extend the sources.list syntax so > you can tell it to read Packages.cd directly What would happen if you made apt stat every .deb in a file:// url too, on apt-get update, say, and trimmed t

Re: Debian woody and sid unofficial CDs

2001-04-13 Thread Mattias Wadenstein
On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, jason andrade wrote: > On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, Attila Nagy wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > FSN.hu's Debian woody and sid unofficial CDs have been updated. > > planetmirror.com is updating the woody and sid mirrors. And our nightly cronjob has started updating, it is currently at si

Re: Bug#93612: Support for new archive structure

2001-04-13 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > It works because you got lucky, you had a CD that was fortunately > > constructed properly. It is not supported, and if it does not work, I > > totally don't care. > > Of course, the CDs are constructed properly ! I'm in charge of maintaining > d

Re: Bug#93612: Support for new archive structure

2001-04-13 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 02:23:41PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe écrivait: > Because no matter what you do your CD will be invalid in some form, and > using a verbatim Packages file is the least pain. That's the first time I see Debian willing to accept "invalid" CDs instead of designing cleanly the thi

Re: Bug#93612: Support for new archive structure

2001-04-13 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > That's the first time I see Debian willing to accept "invalid" CDs instead > of designing cleanly the thing from scratch so that such problem don't > exist. Ha! It hasn't been until recently that Debian has had 'valid' CDs at all. > > > I'm really

Re: Bug#93612: Support for new archive structure

2001-04-13 Thread Philip Charles
On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > > > you can tell it to read Packages.cd directly > > > I don't want that, it's a hack. :) > > No more than all the other ugly things that have been suggested, and this > only affects the 3 people silly enough to loopback mount ISO's and try to >

Re: Bug#93612: Support for new archive structure

2001-04-13 Thread J.A. Bezemer
On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > > > > I'm really beginning to think that the only valid alternative is > > > > to have a Release file and its signature for each CD. > > > > > > Absolutely not. > > > > Why ? Of course, it's a pain f

Re: Bug#93612: Support for new archive structure

2001-04-13 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Sat, 14 Apr 2001, J.A. Bezemer wrote: > > b) Use verbatim package files and call them 'Packages.something' > > - Everyone can make CD set, and we still have end-to-end security > > - apt file:/../ does not work properly on those discs > e) The Packages of the FTP archive is copied verba

Re: Bug#93612: Support for new archive structure

2001-04-13 Thread Philip Charles
Can someone point me to a document which sets out goals, objectives and the like for this archive structure? Thanks, Phil. - Philip Charles; 39a Paterson St., Dunedin, New Zealand; +64 3 4882818 Mobile 025 267 9420. I sell GNU/Linux CDs. See http://www.copyleft.co.nz [EMAIL PROTECTED]