On Thursday 08 March 2007 09:35, Brian Hawkins wrote: > Over the next few months I need to put together my own linux distro > image. I guess I need to backup first. For school I'm creating a way > to perform differential bittorrent downloads. I want to use linux > distribution images as my test data. The idea is that if I have one > release of an image and I want to download the next, chances are they > are not entirely different. It would be really cool if I could then use > matching blocks from the previous image to complete the new image and > therefore shortening my time to download. > > With that said I need to build my own distribution image that I can > update with changes periodically and test against previous images. I > also need to change the way the compression is done when putting the > image together. The compression makes a big difference when trying to > find matching blocks in a previous image. > > So my requirements are: > I can build it on my Fedora Core 6 machine. > The packages update regularly so I can create new versions of the image > with changes. > I can modify the compression used when putting the image together. > > I have no idea where to start with accomplishing this, as I have never > put together a distribution before. I would appreciate anyone with > experience in this area.
Gentoo has a tool to make bootable images as well. I'm not sure how you are planning on computing the differences, but as a suggestion, xdelta comes to mind as perhaps being useful. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
