On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 10:28:01AM -0700, Ian Burrell wrote: > On 10/5/06, Michal Jaegermann <michal@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >There exists this "jigdo", or "Jigsaw Download", project. > >http://www.atterer.net/jigdo/ > >It allows to download "custom images". > > Jigdo creates an ISO image from a description file and the contained > files. It is handy when you already have all the files. Precisely. But "all files" for a particular variant may mean only a subset of all available files. Also you may already have a substantial portion of these files. Say in a development cycle when you are testing installation and only some bits-and-pieces were really changed. > In the world before bittorrent, it was easier to mirror a > repository of packages instead of the ISO. Bittorrent sometimes works and sometimes is not that great for assorted reasons. Yes, "the real image" has to be reassembled by a receiving end of jigdo. Michal -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list