On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 11:08:28PM +0200, Mateusz Poszwa wrote: >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-cd@lists.debian.org, 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.
Correct. We'd need to extend the jigdo format and code quite a lot to do anything useful. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com Who needs computer imagery when you've got Brian Blessed? -- 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/20100531211258.gl5...@einval.com