Joerg Jaspert wrote:
> unless someone has a *very* good reason (and is willing to do the work)
> we are planning to kick the tools/ directory from our mirrors, as well
> as the dftp*.gz files in project/misc.

Please check with the debian-cd team first. Files from tools are still
being included on CD images and with current debian-cd CD builds will
fail if it is removed from the mirrors.

Cheers,
FJP

Hello,

Although it is doubtful that anyone actually uses all of those zip
files in order to install debian, I think it is very likely that other
linux sites point to the debian/tools directory to inform people where
to download rawrite and md5sum, two relatively common utilities needed
if you have a linux system at hand. I don't think this is a reason to
stop their removal, however. A quick google search reveals that while
Apple points to the Debian mirrors,
(http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=71921) the document
was created in 1999. It's probably safe to remove them.

Daniel Moerner

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Am 2008-08-07 09:42:31, schrieb Daniel Moerner:
> Hello,
>
> Although it is doubtful that anyone actually uses all of those zip
> files in order to install debian, I think it is very likely that other
> linux sites point to the debian/tools directory to inform people where
> to download rawrite and md5sum, two relatively common utilities needed
> if you have a linux system at hand. I don't think this is a reason to
> stop their removal, however. A quick google search reveals that while
> Apple points to the Debian mirrors,
> (http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=71921) the document
> was created in 1999. It's probably safe to remove them.

Hmmm, this mean, "loadlin.exe" would be removed too?

Since I do some embedded stuff using DJGPP I used loadlin.exe to
boot a linux basic installation from withing MS/DR-DOS or TDDOS.

Thanks, Greetings and nice Day/Evening
Michelle Konzack
Systemadministrator
24V Electronic Engineer
Tamay Dogan Network
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On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 06:41:21PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
>Joerg Jaspert wrote:
>> unless someone has a *very* good reason (and is willing to do the work)
>> we are planning to kick the tools/ directory from our mirrors, as well
>> as the dftp*.gz files in project/misc.
>
>Please check with the debian-cd team first. Files from tools are still
>being included on CD images and with current debian-cd CD builds will
>fail if it is removed from the mirrors.

Yup. I've spoken to mhy about this since. We explicitly don't include
/tools/ in the .jigdo images as they're not versioned. I'll stop
adding the files onto the CDs in the daily/weekly images shortly when
the build machine is back up.

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Michelle Konzack, le Mon 11 Aug 2008 20:09:23 +0200, a écrit :
> Hmmm, this mean, "loadlin.exe" would be removed too?

loadlin is used for the win9x support too.

Samuel


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]] Steve McIntyre

| On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 06:41:21PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
| >Joerg Jaspert wrote:
| >> unless someone has a *very* good reason (and is willing to do the work)
| >> we are planning to kick the tools/ directory from our mirrors, as well
| >> as the dftp*.gz files in project/misc.
| >
| >Please check with the debian-cd team first. Files from tools are still
| >being included on CD images and with current debian-cd CD builds will
| >fail if it is removed from the mirrors.
|
| Yup. I've spoken to mhy about this since. We explicitly don't include
| /tools/ in the .jigdo images as they're not versioned. I'll stop
| adding the files onto the CDs in the daily/weekly images shortly when
| the build machine is back up.

It'd be good to keep tools/ at least until lenny is out, since debian-cd
in the current stable release will be broken (as noted above). Not
everybody runs debian-cd from svn. :-)

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