Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] [Fwd: Re: integration of DansGuardian into Devil-Linux?]

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

On Fri, March 16, 2007 07:57, Bruce Smith wrote:
>>> Dansguardian is already in DL, and has been for some time.
>>>
>>
>> from changes file (1.2.10): ---
>> - tar'ed up dansguardian /etc/ files and put in /config on CD,
>> must be manually installed in this DL release (bs) ---
>>
>>
>> IIRC this was because of the uncertain licensing policy.
>>
>
> No, I believe we did that for a different reason.
>
>
> There are some packages that have large amounts of data in /etc.  And
> since /etc/ is in ram-disk, it's wasting a lot of memory for people who
> don't use those packages.  Plus the 'save-config' tar file may get too
> large to fit on a floppy.
>
> So, we've been tarring up some of the packages with large /etc/ usage
> and putting it on the CD.  People who run those packages will need to untar
> the data from the CD into their /etc.
>
> This saves a lot of memory and 'save-config' disk space for everyone.
>
>
> I guess we need to document this better.  Maybe something in the
> official DL docs?  Heiko?  (I never learned how to do that)  :-)

I'd be more then happy to show you (if I remember...).

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  Heiko Zuerker
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