On Tue, 14 May 2013 15:33:53 +0100 Steve McIntyre <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 05:03:04PM +0200, Mateusz Poszwa wrote: > >On Sun, 12 May 2013 20:35:51 +0900 > >Hideki Yamane <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> During Tokyo Debian meeting on Saturday, one participant asked > >> "why there's less DVD images on cdimage.d.o than MD5SUMS files?" > >> > >> Probably this would be to reduce unnecessary download, but > >> is there any information for this? (just curious) > >> > > > >Hello. > > > >This is a (very, very) frequently asked question: > > > >http://www.debian.org/CD/faq/#not-all-images > > > >Other disc images are meant to be downloaded/assembled with jigdo. > > Absolutely, yes. > > >Best regards. > > > >PS: By the way… I am thinking about launching a server which would > >provide images absent on the main mirror (as well as some archival > >ones). Is it desirable? > > /me should really finish off jigdoofus to make this easy... > I may have worded it badly… I'm sorry. I should've said s/server/service/. I already had JigdoFUSE working (being able to assemble images correctly, though not very efficiently) by the time I discovered jigdoofus. The problem is I only have FTP access to a free server without ability to mount filesystems now. I could host the service at home, but my uplink would not suffice for that purpose. I could also rent another server (VPS?), but I don't know if it is worth to. I have other ideas though. In a world closer to perfect, users would just use jigdo to get Debian. In the real world though, they usually don't bother to install a separate program just to get an image. They may already have a BitTorrent client, but I presume not all images are seeded. For BitTorrent there is BitLet – a Java applet which downloads a torrent client-side. It should be possible to write a similar applet for jigdo. I think even reusing existing packages/CDs would be possible then. For those who don't have a Java-enabled browser, I think a PHP (*flinch*) script could be used to assemble images on-the-fly enabling the ability to download them via HTTP. The script could be pushed to package/jigdo mirrors to turn them into CD mirrors. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think such mirrors could be used as webseeds for BitTorrent. I'm looking forward to hearing your opinion on these ideas. If you think they're worth the effort, I might manage to save some spare time to implement them. Best regards. :-) -- Mateusz Poszwa -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130514223756.07729142@debelianear
