Ideas

2024-05-13 Thread Martin McCarthy
Good morning all, I hope you're doing well today. I am writing to you today to discuss a few ideas, proposals and concerns that I have about my experience in the Debian community over the past 6 months or so: Script for Point Release ISO Testing

Re: Ideas/Questions about Jigdo...

2002-12-04 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 09:19:41PM -0800, Paul E Condon wrote: I'm curious about the process of creating Official iso images. How is it done? There must be a directory tree that is populated with package files, some programs that support the installation of a Debian GNU/Linux system on the HD,

Re: Ideas/Questions about Jigdo...

2002-12-04 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 09:19:41PM -0800, Paul E Condon wrote: I'm curious about the process of creating Official iso images. How is it done? There must be a directory tree that is populated with package files, some programs that support the installation of a Debian GNU/Linux system on the HD,

Ideas/Questions about Jigdo...

2002-12-03 Thread Erisian Saint Vinge
First off let me just say that Jigdo is great and I've used it to download Debian 3 a few times. Now I just have some questions and ideas about how it could be possibly improved/altered. So Jigdo files and the templates are the basis for the iso creation, and it downloads .deb files. My question

Re: Ideas/Questions about Jigdo...

2002-12-03 Thread Gordon Huff
At 10:30 AM 02/12/03 -0600, Erisian wrote: First off let me just say that Jigdo is great I like it too. So Jigdo files and the templates are the basis for the iso creation, Backwards, actually. The official iso image is created first, and the jigdo process creates the jigdo and template

Re: Ideas/Questions about Jigdo...

2002-12-03 Thread Richard Atterer
On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 10:30:49AM -0600, Erisian Saint Vinge wrote: My question is how are the .jigdo files and templates created and will there be an easy program/way to do this so that one could basically design their own iso with custom packages. Yes, this is possible, but no, it isn't

Re: Ideas/Questions about Jigdo...

2002-12-03 Thread jason andrade
On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Richard Atterer wrote: Should we extend the popularity-contest package so that people can choose what type of user they are? The resulting stats could be used to create one Debian server CD release, a Debian desktop one, a Debian workstation one, etc. - much like the

Ideas/Questions about Jigdo...

2002-12-03 Thread Erisian Saint Vinge
First off let me just say that Jigdo is great and I've used it to download Debian 3 a few times. Now I just have some questions and ideas about how it could be possibly improved/altered. So Jigdo files and the templates are the basis for the iso creation, and it downloads .deb files. My question

Re: Ideas/Questions about Jigdo...

2002-12-03 Thread Gordon Huff
At 10:30 AM 02/12/03 -0600, Erisian wrote: First off let me just say that Jigdo is great I like it too. So Jigdo files and the templates are the basis for the iso creation, Backwards, actually. The official iso image is created first, and the jigdo process creates the jigdo and template files.

Re: Ideas/Questions about Jigdo...

2002-12-03 Thread Richard Atterer
On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 10:30:49AM -0600, Erisian Saint Vinge wrote: My question is how are the .jigdo files and templates created and will there be an easy program/way to do this so that one could basically design their own iso with custom packages. Yes, this is possible, but no, it isn't

Re: Ideas/Questions about Jigdo...

2002-12-03 Thread jason andrade
On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Richard Atterer wrote: Should we extend the popularity-contest package so that people can choose what type of user they are? The resulting stats could be used to create one Debian server CD release, a Debian desktop one, a Debian workstation one, etc. - much like the

Re: Ideas/Questions about Jigdo...

2002-12-03 Thread Paul E Condon
Gordon Huff wrote: -snip- So Jigdo files and the templates are the basis for the iso creation, Backwards, actually. The official iso image is created first, and the jigdo process creates the jigdo and template files. I'm curious about the process of creating Official iso images. How is it done?