Hi,
perhaps a dumb comment regarding the following (IMHO very good) idea:
> > > > 2. How did your CTO respond to the need for a constant single name
> > > > for the most current beta iso image? This requirement is dictated to
> > >
> > > i'm not sure i understand what is your request..
> >
> > Repeated (it IS important!):
> >
> > This requirement is dictated to permit incremental download of
> > [iso image file] changes by rsync. Without this
> > constraint on your operations, beta-testers will be faced with a
> > complete near 1 GB download every time the beta iso is changed, which
> > is totally unnecessary and an enormous load on your server and its
> > mirrors - rsync downloads only the changes within the server file and
> > edits them into the local client file.
> >
> Okay, I understand now. This is a very good idea to save bandwidth. The
> only problem that could stay, is that people will have less visibility on
> the different versions of the ISO.
won't it work to have in the /iso directory something like
hydrogen-beta-current.iso which is in fact just a symlink to the real file,
and which gets updated as new beta versions are introduced to point to the
most up to date one? This would provide a constant name for remote rsync
users, while still allowing the Mandrake folks to keep an archive of each
beta version explicitly available. And it wouldn't cost any more in space,
since it's just a link. This sounds painfully obvious so maybe there's a good
reason why it doesn't work and I just don't see it (I don't have much
experience with rsync).
Just an idea.
Best,
Fernando
