Thanks Mike, Jigdo seems to be just the tool that would answer those packaging problems for users and the bandwidth / storage space on servers. From the Jigdo mini-Howto (http://dirac.org/linux/debian/jigdo/debian-jigdo-mini-howto.html)
"Jigdo ... released under the GNU GPL. It's a tool that allows efficient downloading and updating of an ISO image. Any ISO image. Jigdo is not Debian specific ..." I had been reading about their "pseudo image kit" script, which I now discover won't make their development ISOs; Jigdo will and they are finishing a Gnome GUI for this tool. It looks great ! Easy to use, distribution independant and GPL. I say let's adopt it ! > Debian does have a very slick way of downloading/creating ISO images. One > of the cool things about jigdo is that if 5 packages have changed since the > last time you downloaded, only those 5 packages are downloaded and the > updated ISO is created. This would save much bandwidth on those volunteer > mirrors and much time for anyone testing cooker. > > http://home.in.tum.de/~atterer/jigdo/ > > Mike > -- Sincerely, Trent M. Gunnarson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
