Re: FC4 ISO suggestion

["Michael A. Peters" <mpeters@xxxxxxx>]

I would like to suggest that fedora adopt jigdo as a supported  
distribution method for fc4.

With Debian - if someone I know needs CD's - it's not a problem that  
what I have are DVD iso's, I just mount a dvd image and tell jigdo to  
scan it when it makes the CD iso's and since the packages are the same,  
I get perfect CD iso's with very little downloading - and the mirror I  
choose doesn't have to have the iso's on it.

This would also rapidly decrease the amount of downloading needed to go  
from fc4t1 -> fc4t2 -> fc4t3 -> fc4

Only packages that have changed between the releases would need to be  
redownloaded because jigdo can scan the rpm's from your previous iso's.

Using jigdo to update from iso's from fc3 to fc4 probably does not make  
much sense, as most if not all of the packages will have changed, but  
using jigdo to get a fresh fc4 does make sense because your mirror only  
needs the rpm's, it doesn't need the iso's - and it's a nice solution  
where you can't use bt. And you can just download the dvd through bt  
and then easily make md5sum matching cd iso's from the dvd iso.