On Tue, 28 Dec 1999, Ron Stodden wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Dec 1999, Pixel wrote:
>
> < Again the iso 2 seems bad...
> >
> > i'll redo one soon.
>
> I would discourage the maintaining of iso CD images as a distribution method
> of a changing set of software in favour of maintaining a hd image and we
> clients using wget or mirror to catch the updates dynamically at minimum
> cost, since both tools recognise changes by timestamp and size and only
> download differences. mirror has the further advantage that it can also
> delete files from the client if they have been removed from the server.
Nothing wrong with a daily iso. It also has the benefit of knowing exactly
what packages are available. (the iso are only available during betas)
> The first trouble with doing an iso is that the entire thing (640 Mb, which is
> between 35 and 53 hours at V90, ie over 2 full 24 hour days and mights) must
> be re-downloaded even for the slightest update. This exceeds the maximum
> monthly download for most ISP accounts, so becomes very costly.
use rsync, and rename the old iso to the new name..
> The second trouble is that you have been updating the iso without
> simultaneously updating all the file-oriented mirrors. This is not
> excusable.
The(most) mirrors update every hour, the iso is made from the exact files
that are mirrored (hence the missing images/ dir the other day)
What mirror are you useing?
> Better still, why do you not provide an rsync server? Mandrake
> includes the rsync client. This has the advantage of incremental update,
> even within a file, and compressed download. Your job then becomes just
> updating files on the master rsync site (and its mirrors).
It's available, and listed on the same place as the ftp mirrors.
> Persons requiring CDs must in any case have the necessary 640Mb to download
> the ISO image, so why not download the files image instead and install from
> hd? Going to CD makes no sense at all, so it follows that an iso image makes
> no sense at all. Right?
>
Permissions problems, Double the space requirement.
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