The important thing first: jigdo-mirror needs more testers! When 3.0r0 is released, cdimage will be so overloaded that any rsync-based mirroring will be very slow, so set up jigdo-mirror instead!
On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 12:57:01AM +0200, Mattias Wadenstein wrote: > On Sun, 26 May 2002, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > On mirrors.kernel.org, we recently suffered a major disk failure, which > > among other things ate our PIK CD mirror setup. I went to look for the > > software again, and find that "it has mostly been superceded by jigdo, > > and that is the only way to download the Debian DVD images." I've been wondering whether the info on the PIK should be removed altogether from the web pages - will .list files still be generated for 3.0 and later releases? > PIK was kind of inefficient and required a final rsync to get the > full image, which requires (at least) the master site to carry a > full set of images. Jigdo is kind of a better PIK in that it builds > an actual image, not just a pseudo-image from a jigdo file and a > template (containing the literal data not found in packages on your > local debian mirror). jigdo-mirror does not even strictly need a local Debian mirror, although it's strongly recommended. > The downsides if jigdo is that it is a fairly complex C++ program > which means some portability issues when dealing with older systems. FWIW, I fixed a few issues lately. I suspect it still won't work for you, but if you have the time you can try it out again and tell me where it fails now. > There exists a C port, but that is not actively maintained > currenlty. It is also a fairly new system, which means just the > obvious bugs have been noticed and taken care of. I believe there > are some usability issues to take care of after The Release. What "usability issues"? :) I'm making slow progress with the jigdo GUI app if that's what you mean... > http://www.acc.umu.se/~maswan/debian-push/jigdo-mirror > > Richard: Perhaps the jigdo-mirror script should be in a more > official place than here and in the list archives? jigdo-mirror has been part of the last two jigdo releases. I always had the feeling that nobody bothers to read my release announcements. ;-P On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 01:31:10AM +0200, Mattias Wadenstein wrote: > The jigdo-mirror script would be the equivalent of debcdmirror, it > could probably use some work since I think I am the only one that > has reported usage of it (and I found some issues). Yes, so far yours was the only feedback. > Or you could wait until after the woody release, jigdo is new and > really put into place with the distribution of woody images. I'm > sure most issues will be dealt with a couple of weeks after that. Are you thinking of any particular "issues"? Cheers, Richard -- __ _ |_) /| Richard Atterer | CS student at the Technische | GnuPG key: | \/�| http://atterer.net | Universit�t M�nchen, Germany | 0x888354F7 � '` � -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
