Re: Final CDs being written for Stretch - 9.13 release - prior to LTS
>> An alternative is to have "virtual ISO images", i.e. images which are >> constructed on the fly (presumably by jigdo) on the web-server side. > Assuming that a complete set of ISOs for whatever medium occupies > at most 100 GB, it seems better to have the images ready rather than to > assemble them on demand, even if the mirror latency and bandwidth are > no problem. > This would spare the nightmare of managing the life cycle of temporary ISOs > on the server. I assume that all images would fit on a single modern HDD. I was thinking of a scheme by which the ISO is constructed and streamed at the same time, so the complete ISO images aren't ever stored whole anywhere on the server. > But the reason for letting the user perform jigdo download is that the network > load vanishes in the normal traffic of the package servers. If download gets > interrupted, one just has to start it again to get the remaining work > completed. Very good point. I did not consider the interrupt issue. > The production of jigdo files is a linear effort only if the producer > knows where the filesystem stores file content data. This knowledge is in > the ISO 9660 producers genisoimage and xorriso. For other filesystems > the matching jigdo producer software is not available yet. I'm not sure I understand what this means, but it does sound like it implies that streaming production of ISOs is technically possible. Stefan
Re: Final CDs being written for Stretch - 9.13 release - prior to LTS
> Thank you Thomas. Yes, that's obviously why it was done.So - a quick look > on Wikipedia suggests that this was a current machine in 2006 and was > replaced in 2007 / 2008. So - if anyone has one running anywhere, it's > somewhere between 12-15 years old. If anybody knows of any that they really > must keep running, speak now or forever hold your peace. It's probably time > for this to be dropped for Bullseye. I have such a macmini-1,1 which I upgraded to macmini-2,1 (it's the same hardware and the firmware upgrade was needed for one of the other upgrades (can't remember if it was to bring up the RAM to 3GB or to upgrade the CPU to a Core 2 Duo)). [ It's my office desktop, happily driving two 1600x1200 monitors (with a DVI-I => DVI-D + VGA splitter), something which Apple's own OS never bothered to support. ] But IIRC I install Debian on it by cloning some existing Debian root filesystem directly onto the drive, rather than doing the "normal Debian install". So don't make those extra sets for me. Stefan
