On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 05:04:28PM -0200, Gustavo Franco wrote: > >Let me thanks the debian-desktop, debian-installer and tasksel team >too. Without them, that stuff would be useless.
Yup, of course. :-) >I would like to clarify that debian-desktop (alioth, svn, mailing >list) is now a unit composed by pkg-gnome, pkg-kde and pkg-xfce and >tasksel members. Joey Hess (d-i and debian-cd) give us all the support >to make stuff happen. > >Unfortunately, even the GNOME desktop environment doesn't fit on the >CD#1. You will need broadband connection to fetch some more packages >or use the full DVD#1 for your architecture. The bonus is that KDE >will be there too (full DVD #1). I'm not sure about the latest >statistics on KDE and XFCE alternative desktop CD#1. Joey, could you >give us that information? Btw, i would like to suggest add it >somewhere in the release notes "where's what" in terms of medias. I >can submit patches, after you feed me with info. As Joey suggests, the key task packages from Gnome and KDE should each fit on their respective versions of CD#1. >>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 overlaps mean that there is space >>on this disc for more packages than might be expected. Plus, sources >>for all the binaries on the DVD will be included too. This DVD is >>therefore probably the ideal choice of disc to sell or give away at >>Expos. > >Does it contains desktop, kde-desktop, gnome-desktop and xfce-desktop? >I guess not, but who knows. ;) I would hope so, yes. It'll also depend on popcon ordering as to exactly what gets there. >>In case it's not obvious, the 3 arches picked for these discs are >>simply the most common end-user systems out there. There is scope for >>producing more multi-arch discs, but the possible combinations are >>*massive* :-). > >I would like to suggest 'split' the 9 archs left in 3, something like: >- arm, mips, mipsel >- hppa, ia64, s390 >- sparc, m68k, alpha > >Is it possible? Do you think it will fit ? If yes, i can prepare >patches for debian-cd once i figure out all that pile of changes. There is a problem that I didn't mention here specifically yet: many of the arches clash in terms of how to make a CD bootable. Many expect to find their own special metadata in sector 0 of the CD, and most of them are completely incompatible. :-( We're actually quite lucky that the common 3 arches are compatible. The other thing is that the number of CD/DVD-bootable machines in the other arches is really quite small, probably small enough not to be worth bothering with the extra effort here for the multi-arch discs. >>To do >>===== >> >>I'm still expecting to add Live CDs to the list here before we >>release. Otherwise, I think we're about set. If there's anything else >>you'd like us to do or anything you'd like to ask about, please reply >>to this mail - note the Reply-To to the debian-cd list. > >Do you plan to use the live-package to build the live cds or some new >code into debian-cd ? If you're going to pick live-package i submitted >a patch to Daniel that would permit use a tasksel based approach to >select packages, and not the fixed list as they actually do. I have no >feedback about that until now. It seems they were going to do a major >change in the code. Yep, I'm expecting to use live-package. I need to get playing with that soon... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. [EMAIL PROTECTED] "C++ ate my sanity" -- Jon Rabone -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
