Why use jigdo when one can download a netinstall image which is considerably smaller and install the rest of the packages via the internet. of course one must also have broadband in order to apt-get all those big desktop packages..
On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 09:54:37AM +0800, List Mail wrote: > On 4/5/07, Pablo Manalastas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >When I use jigdo to download Debian testing (ETCH), I notice that jigdo > >gets > >an entire CD by getting each file in the CD one by one, possibly from more > >than one source, and assembles these files to make the CD. My question: > >does jigdo obtain the latest versions of each file, or is there a fixed > >list > >of files that jigdo must download? > The list of files is fixed (the list can be found in the *jigdo file > itself, which is a gzip compressed file). When I was using jigdo to > download a DVD image, I got lots of messages at the start about > missing Debian packages. A casual check showed that the packages were > superseded by more up-to-date versions. > I was worried whether I could finish the download, but since I > couldn't find a more up-to-date *jigdo file I decided to continue to > see what happened. Later I found out that jigdo downloaded the missing > packages from a snapshot repository different from the mirror location > I chose. The repository contained all the out-of-date packages jigdo > needed to complete the DVD image. > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) > Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > ** ACCEPT: CRM114 PASS osb unique microgroom Matcher ** > CLASSIFY fails; success probability: 0.0001 pR: -4.1831 > Best match to file #1 (spam.css) prob: 0.9999 pR: 4.1831 > Total features in input file: 3504 > #0 (nonspam.css): features: 12580, hits: 27448, prob: 6.56e-05, pR: -4.18 > #1 (spam.css): features: 65890, hits: 25509, prob: 1.00e-00, pR: 4.18 -- -- Ralph Bacolod,RMT,MT http://rbacolod.blogspot.com _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
