Re: [Freedos-devel] Package CDROM

[<je...@sh...>]

Follow up…

For the time being, I re-enabled the creation of that ISO and it is now available.

:-)

Jerome

> On Mar 31, 2025, at 4:09 AM, Jerome Shidel via Freedos-devel <fre...@li...> wrote:
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>> On Mar 31, 2025, at 1:41 AM, Prime Seal via Freedos-devel <fre...@li... <mailto:fre...@li...>> wrote:
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>> Greetings
>> 
>> What happened to the CDROM.iso that has packages on repository server
>> "https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/repositories/latest/ <https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/repositories/latest/>"
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>> Seal
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> Short-ish version…
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> Current version of Repository management software (fdrepo) automatically updates the repo once per day. 
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> When it does that, it looks for the existence of a couple things. For example, it looks for the RSS feed & CDROM.ISO. 
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> If there were package updates and that file exists, it will be updated. If it does not exist, it will not be recreated.
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> Recently in preparation for the eminent release of FreeDOS 1.4, I purged the “latest” repository of all files. 
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> The repository has grown a lot and the ISO really is no longer will fit on a CD and would require a DVD. 
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> Unsure if we should still call it a CDROM.ISO, or change it to DVD.ISO, or if anyone is actually even using it, 
> I have not told it to start making after the purge. 
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