On Wednesday 26 December 2007, David Boles wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Wednesday 26 December 2007, David Boles wrote: >> >> Maybe so, but you have obviously done this several times previously, >> David. As far as the gui is concerned, no it is not needed, but the >> majority of us would like to have one with 2 or three file requesters to >> use, one for getting the src listing from the url, one for finding that >> src list on your machine once its been downloaded, and one to tell it >> where to put the results. With such a working gui that launched the >> jigdo-lite as a background process giving it the correct syntax and data >> as derived from the file requesters, I'd bet that jigdo usage would >> multiply by 10 in a week. > >I don't recall if I pointed you at this site page before or not. I have >others. But it just about does not get more clear than this. Done by >Fedora people, for Fedora people, to download Fedora isos. > > >Using Jigdo to Download Re-Spin ISOs >http://fedorasolved.org/post-install-solutions/jigdo/ > > >This site gives very good, clear instructions. They were for me. And, as >an experiment, I just did this again while running Windows XP Pro. That >was interesting because there are next to no instructions for that way. >And none of the Linux instructions 'work' in the Windows jigdo. They are >all actually writen for Debian isos and had to be edited. > >And yes I have done this before now. Several times. Just for giggles and >grins. I have also, somewhere, the necessary rsync CLI that will let you > 'change' a rc1 beta to a rc2 beta iso by just 'diffing' the changed >parts of the contents between the two. >-- > And that, David, TBT, makes a heck of a lot more sense. That should be published, but I suspect a carefull reading of the rsync docs would soon re-invent that particular wheel. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven. -- Mark Twain -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
