Array CD 1

[John]

Colin Watson wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 12:58:06AM +0800, John wrote:
> 
>>I've not yet seen one of your official CD packages but I assume it 
>>includes source on CD in compliance with the GPL para 3.a). That's what 
>>Red Hat does.
> 
> 
> We don't include source on the CD itself, because it doesn't anywhere
> near fit; the source takes up a CD and a bit, in fact. A mirror of he
> set of source packages producing the set of binary packages on the CD is
> currently the most straightforward approach.

Where is this set enumerated?

The only think I can think of to do atm is to install everything and 
then apt-get -source everything.

Of course, that doesn't get everything: only nearly so.

> 
>>If you already have a procedure in place to create a source ISO, then I 
>>don't see that running it and publishing the result is a big deal.
> 
> 
> We do, sort of, but it's raw and untested at the moment.
> 
> However, you're right that source ISO images would be useful in some
> contexts, and they've been on my to-do list for a while. I'll see what I
> can do about them today.

Thanks Colin.

I often download source ISOs so I know I have the source I want when I 
want it.  Since I've been on Debian I've not bothered (are there ISOs) 
because, until a year ago, I was on DSL and that was suifficiently prompt.