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On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 00:52:54 -0700 Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o> |
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| Traditionally, we've had 5 disc 1's and 5 disc 2's. What I'm proposing |
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| is that we move to 1 disc 1 and 5 disc 2's. There would be one disc 1 |
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| for all our sub-architectures. This would help the store in that we'd |
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| have fewer unique CDs to produce. It would also remove about 2GB from |
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| the mirrors. |
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I like this. One small request -- any chance of keeping the 'minimal' CD |
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around? No stages, no source, no binaries, just the runtime data. This |
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would be useful for: |
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* rescue CD |
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* stage1 type people with reasonable network connections that still |
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don't want to download lots of things they won't use (I suspect that |
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this covers a lot of our users...) |
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* people who make their own stages |
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* use with updated stages |
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A random poll in #gentoo suggests that the minimal CDs are extremely |
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popular, and I know that I'd miss it. |
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As an additional suggestion from Seemant: |
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10:25 <@seemant> ciaranm: if no stage1, it should include a text file |
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with links to mirrors where stages are located |
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10:25 <@seemant> so like lynx file:///blah/stage-mirrors.html |
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10:25 <@seemant> and then instant "click" access to mirrors |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org |
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Web: http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm |
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