Re: [gentoo-releng] x86 (ppc?) cd layout for 2004.0

[Pieter Van den Abeele <pvdabeel@gentoo.org>]

Hi,

On 18 Feb 2004, at 08:52, Daniel Robbins wrote:
> Likewise, if this is adopted for PPC, it would allow us to have
> potentially 1 instead of 3 (or maybe even 4?) disc 1's, and reduce our
> mirror load by an additional 900MB to 1.4GB. It would also give ppc
> users one CD1 to download that provides them with pre-built stage3's 
> for
> ppc, g3, g4 (32-bit g5?) which I think many would find convenient.

We were already using the format you described in your email for the 
1.4 ppc discs, with the exception that I created different disc1's 
containing a subset of all stages. For the rest they were identical. 
There was no grp on disc 1.
Biggest advantage is that you can update grp only, without having to 
recreate the disc one.
Also, it removes the requirement to maintain two lists of binary 
packages.

The reason for choosing this format for the ppc disc made building a 
release much easier:

Unpack a stage3
emerge --buildpkg $PACKAGES
emerge --unmerge $UNWANTED

When finished you have a complete set of GRP, and a kde/gnome cd.
Creating the smaller cds, is just rerunning the script using the GRP 
built for kde/gnome but a smaller set of $PACKAGES and a different $USE 
of course.

On ppc , pre-releases are for generic ppc only (compatible with 
G3,G4,G5). Fosdem release is therefore in the format you described. For 
the official release, I want to reduce the set even further by making 
only one disc 1 for G3,G4 and G5 (G5 uses a different kernel, but 
identical initrd and live environment).

Pieter

>
> Please let me know what you think of this new layout proposal.
>
> Regards,
>
> Daniel
>
>
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