RE: [PATCH] make multi-arch CD/DVD images more visible

2007-03-05 Thread peter green
> This has certainly appened, *but* I have only see it happen with > downloads > of Sarge images as amd64 are not mentioned on the sarge pages (because it > was not a release arch). To the best of my recollection, I have never yet > seen this happen with Etch images. me neither but from the po

please change symlinks to a http redirects on cdimage.debian.org

2007-03-30 Thread peter green
afaict you currently use symlinks to point at the current version of daily/weekly builds. This means that users who resume a download after a new release will most likely get a mixed (and therefore broken) image. changing that to a http redirect would mean that users would get a directory listi

RE: please change symlinks to a http redirects on cdimage.debian.org

2007-03-30 Thread peter green
> > afaict you currently use symlinks to point at the current version of > > daily/weekly builds. This means that users who resume a > download after a > > new release will most likely get a mixed (and therefore broken) image. > > > > changing that to a http redirect would mean that users would

small query on multi-arch cd

2007-04-18 Thread Peter Green
It has been stated that the multi arch cd contains source for all packages it contains but does it contain the build dependencies for those packages? and if not why not? After all source code isn't much use (and probablly doesn't meet the gpl definition of source code) if the stuff needed to build

please make location of sarge images more obvious

2007-04-25 Thread peter green
http://cdimage.debian.org/ redirects me to a page on www.debian.org which links back to http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd which only contains etch images. this makes it rather hard to find the sarge images. I eventually managed it by using ftp rather than http and hence getting a top level dir

Re: Release status of i386 for Bullseye and long term support for 3 years?

2020-12-12 Thread peter green
Then there was the short netbook boom, but AFAIR some early ones had 64bit CPUs but 32bit-only firmware. My memory is that at the height of the boom the dominant processors were the N270 and N280, which are 32-bit only. By the time 64-bit netbook processors showed up the boom was on the dec

Re: [RFC] Consequences for official CD/DVD images for Lenny

2008-12-03 Thread peter green
The i386/amd64/powerpc DVD is more problematic as having all desktops will completely fill the DVD leaving no room for other packages with a high popcon score. Proposal is therefore to drop powerpc support from this DVD. With only i386 and amd64 there is still room for the top ~2600 packages o

multi-arch dvd, build-depends and the GPL

2008-12-03 Thread peter green
The initial announcement of the mulit-arch DVD [1] said " There is also a combined amd64/i386/powerpc/source DVD which should contain most of what people will commonly want to install on each of those 3 arches, roughly equivalent to the contents of the first 3-4 CDs or so each. Binary-all package

Re: multi-arch dvd, build-depends and the GPL

2008-12-04 Thread peter green
"The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it. For an executable work, complete source code means all the source code for all modules it contains, plus any associated interface definition files, plus the scripts used to control compilat

changing name of debian directory on CDs.

2012-12-03 Thread peter green
I am working on building CDs images for raspbian (a derivative. I would like to change the name of the debian directory on the CDs to make it less confusing for users. That leaves me with two questions. 1: will this cause problems for apt? 2: assuming it doesn't cause problems for apt how do I

Bug#695080: please allow users to configure distribution name used in image descriptions

2012-12-03 Thread peter green
Package: debian-cd Severity: wishlist when I look at the jigdo files i've generated I see "ShortInfo='Debian GNU/Linux 7.0 "Wheezy" - Official Snapshot armhf CD Binary-1 20121203-21:36 (20121203)'" any idea how to change that to say raspbian? ok I found the answer, it's hardcoded, not in an

Bug#695244: which_deb fails when trying to build source cds from an archive that doesn't have i386 or amd64 binaries

2012-12-05 Thread peter green
Package: debian-cd I've been working on trying to build cd images for raspbian using debian-cd. While doing this I found that when building source cds which_deb only looks for i386 and amd64 packages files. If it finds neither it fails horriblly. This prevents building source CDs for derivati