Hello, Am Freitag, 12. August 2005 04:25 schrieb Shriramana Sharma:
Christian Boltz wrote:
Am Donnerstag, 11. August 2005 14:59 schrieb Shriramana Sharma:
Guillermo Ballester Valor wrote:
ALL packages. On instalation process, after install packages in DVD 1, then it makes the 'first boot' and finally install all the needed packages in DVD 2.
Both DVDs have 32-bit and 64-bit binary packages
Um, I would have thought that a better idea would have been to make one DVD for 32 bit machines only (with ALL packages) and another for 64 bit machines only (with ALL packages).
This would be a good idea - but you forget the noarch packages (1.4 GB) in your calculation. IIRC the two DVDs were nearly full - so a duplication of noarch was impossible ;-)
Can you please explain what is meant by "noarch" package and why it is 1.4 GB? And how it is related to my question? (Pardon my ignorance...)
As Anders already wrote, "noarch" means packages that are not specific to a cpu architecture (i586, i686, x86_64). Examples for noarch packages are scripts, manuals and language files - they can be used on (or: are needed for) every cpu architecture. Why 1.4 GB? Just have a look at the SuSE 9.3 DVD ;-) cb@cboltz:/media/SU930_001> du -hs suse/* 3.5G suse/i586 15M suse/i686 1.4G suse/noarch <--- here it is 27M suse/setup 2.9G suse/x86_64 Regards, Christian Boltz -- 2.-5.9.2005: Weinfest in Insheim Bei der Landjugend: Liquid, AH-Band und Deafen Goblins Mehr Infos: www.Landjugend-Insheim.de