On Mon, 31 May 2010 16:58:44 -0300 Carlos Carvalho <car...@fisica.ufpr.br> wrote:
> Daniel Baumann (dan...@debian.org) wrote on 31 May 2010 21:20: > >On 05/31/2010 08:28 PM, Mattias Wadenstein wrote: > >> Well, I was going to do that now, but there appears not to be any > >> torrents made for the -live images, at least I can't find any. > > > >as said, whoever is in charge of creating the torrents didn't do it. i > >don't know who that is, and it didn't happen. but i assume that this > >person is reading debian...@l.d.o, so for the next point release, we > >will hopefully have official torrents back. > > > >for the current one, a brave user stepped ahead and filled the gap a few > >days ago (which is what we're currently linking to from live.debian.net). > > If enough mirrors had these images wouldn't it be sufficient for > users? Debian has a good mirror network, and I suppose downloading > from a mirror is equivalent to doing it via torrent, *if* the mirror > has enough bandwidth. > > If jigdo is provided for these images it'd be easy to pull them and > produce the files here. It could be automated so that our mirror is > pushed whenever a new version is in place, just like it happens with > the usual images. ftp.br.debian.org is available to do it. AFAIK reasonable .jigdo files cannot be created for Debian-live because the images are compressed and jigdo requires the image to contain exact copies of parts. It is possible to make a .jigdo file which points to packages contained in the image, but jigdo cannot build such image. -- Mateusz "Old" Poszwa -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-cd-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100531230828.28e9b...@debelianear