Source CD?

[RedKennedy]

Here's an idea...Don't know if it would work...But maybe a cd could be released with source codes instead of packages, and before installing, you set your architecture and optimizations...Whether you want SPARC, MIPS, 686, 486, x86_64 or whatever...Just a thought. Though it's probably not possible. Heh. Otherwise someone probably would have done it.
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[sofar]

we are NOT going to provide you with a 3gb archive of all sources.

1. it would change every day
2. it would consume all our bandwidth
3. we are not stupid too

if you really want that you can download the urllist of all modules from our download location (updated daily) and feed that to wget manually. It will download all required sources for a given moment. See http://download.lunar-linux.org/lunar/mirror-urls.txt

[Guest]

Oooh...Damn...Heh...Never figured the sources would accumulate to more than 10 times the size of the binaries...Heh..I thought "Hmm.....240mb of binaries.....Possibly....650 of sources?" Hehe....

[engelsman]

Before my ADSL connection at home went 'live' in the summer, I downloaded all of the sources at work, as described in the Installing Lunar without a (fast) network page on the old web site. The total size of the resulting directory of mostly compressed tarballs is 4.3Gb!

It took 7 CDs to hold all of these sources. Don't make the mistake that I did and end up with completely useless mangled DOS 8.3 filenames on the CDs

[RedKennedy]

Was that 4.3gb of every single source? Or just ones you wanted?
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[engelsman]

I followed the instructions in the Installing Lunar with (a fast) network page, downloaded the moonbase, and then tried to download all of the sources from the mirror-urls.txt file.

You will need to tweak the wget command line to limit the number of retries and the timeout, otherwise you will have long delays if any of the sites are unavailable. If you are blocked, you will either need to use a secondary mirror or retry later.

In the end I managed to download 2330 moonbase modules and the compressed tarballs for these occupy 4.3Gb. According to the Modules page there are currently 2341 modules available.

Don't forget to add in the ISO, the moonbase, etc. but these are peanuts in comparison:

[Red Kennedy]

So.....How long did that take you? How many sessions of this 3 hours after school a day stuff will it take me? We've got a T1 here, and I'm getting about....130k max for internet throughput.

[RedKennedy]

Damn...I really should start logging in....
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