The nice thing is that there are scripts available on the web (cgi/perl &
the like) which generate CD/DVDs from jigdo files on the fly, and they
support ranges. The CPU use is almost zippo, although more disk seeks are
likely required (the CD/DVD image is being put together from pieces).
This would possibly allow some/all? mirrors to drop the CD/DVD images and
either require people to download via jigdo, or provide the iso files via
cgi script. Still researching this though.
Cheers,
MaZe.
On Fri, 24 Mar 2006, Lance Davis wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Mar 2006, [ISO-8859-2] Maciej ?enczykowski wrote:
>
>> I've made rudimentary jigdo files available at:
>>
>> http://mirror.tcs.ii.uj.edu.pl/jigdo/
>>
>> i386: bin1of4 bin2of4 bin3of4 bin4of4 CDs binDVD srcDVD
>> x86_64: binDVD
>>
>> Usage requires replacing the [Servers] parts inside the jigdo
>> files with an appropriate mirror (file:/, http://, ftp://)
>>
>> This should allow recreation of the above mentioned files from any
>> complete set of their contents (a mirror or DVD from CDs or vice versa).
>>
>> (jigdo is available from dag/dries/rpmforge repo).
>
>
> Great - errmmm
>
> why rudimentary ????
>
> Can you show us scripts/commands that were used to create them ??
>
> Will you maintain them for CentOS if we publish them ???
>
> Can you do the alpha isos/dvd as well please :)
>
> Regards
> Lance
>
>
