Re[2]: Enlighten me about jigdo ..

2003-11-18 Thread Jan Kesten
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi! MW real image. The issue was not the load on the debian mirrors but on the MW debian iso mirrors that kept the real isos available for rsyncing. This MW rsync ate a lot of cputime. And not to

Re[2]: Enlighten me about jigdo ..

2003-11-18 Thread Jan Kesten
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi! MW real image. The issue was not the load on the debian mirrors but on the MW debian iso mirrors that kept the real isos available for rsyncing. This MW rsync ate a lot of cputime. And not to

Re: Enlighten me about jigdo ..

2003-11-17 Thread Mattias Wadenstein
On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, Delian Krustev wrote: On Friday 14 November 2003 12:41, Richard Atterer wrote: An rsync-based scheme (whose design inspired that of jigdo) was used in the old days, the pseudo image kit (PIK). The use of rsync turned out to be problematic (too much load on the server),

Re: Enlighten me about jigdo ..

2003-11-17 Thread Mattias Wadenstein
On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, Delian Krustev wrote: On Friday 14 November 2003 12:41, Richard Atterer wrote: An rsync-based scheme (whose design inspired that of jigdo) was used in the old days, the pseudo image kit (PIK). The use of rsync turned out to be problematic (too much load on the server),

Re: Enlighten me about jigdo ..

2003-11-14 Thread Richard Atterer
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 01:31:05AM +0200, Delian Krustev wrote: I wonder what this hype about jigdo is .. Er - it's not intended to sound like hype, jigdo is just (IMVHO as its author) better suited for Debian CD image distribution than other solutions. 1.get two files for an image - .jigdo,

Re: Enlighten me about jigdo ..

2003-11-14 Thread Delian Krustev
First, I'm glad the response is from You, the jigdo author .. right ? On Friday 14 November 2003 12:41, Richard Atterer wrote: 1. the templates are BIG - as I see from 5 to 20 MB for woody (600+ MBs for i386 sid, but I suppose the maintainer of those unofficial templates has messed the

Re: Enlighten me about jigdo ..

2003-11-14 Thread Richard Atterer
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 02:05:03PM +0200, Delian Krustev wrote: First are You sure the exact reconstruction of the iso is not possible with mkisofs ? What are your concerns, different versions of mkisofs producing different isoimages (e.g. this iso made with mkisofs-20031114cvs in the image

Re: Enlighten me about jigdo ..

2003-11-14 Thread Delian Krustev
On Friday 14 November 2003 14:59, Richard Atterer wrote: On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 02:05:03PM +0200, Delian Krustev wrote: First are You sure the exact reconstruction of the iso is not possible with mkisofs ? What are your concerns, different versions of mkisofs producing different isoimages

Re: Enlighten me about jigdo ..

2003-11-14 Thread Richard Atterer
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 01:31:05AM +0200, Delian Krustev wrote: I wonder what this hype about jigdo is .. Er - it's not intended to sound like hype, jigdo is just (IMVHO as its author) better suited for Debian CD image distribution than other solutions. 1.get two files for an image - .jigdo,

Re: Enlighten me about jigdo ..

2003-11-14 Thread Delian Krustev
First, I'm glad the response is from You, the jigdo author .. right ? On Friday 14 November 2003 12:41, Richard Atterer wrote: 1. the templates are BIG - as I see from 5 to 20 MB for woody (600+ MBs for i386 sid, but I suppose the maintainer of those unofficial templates has messed the

Re: Enlighten me about jigdo ..

2003-11-14 Thread Richard Atterer
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 02:05:03PM +0200, Delian Krustev wrote: First are You sure the exact reconstruction of the iso is not possible with mkisofs ? What are your concerns, different versions of mkisofs producing different isoimages (e.g. this iso made with mkisofs-20031114cvs in the image

Re: Enlighten me about jigdo ..

2003-11-14 Thread Delian Krustev
On Friday 14 November 2003 14:59, Richard Atterer wrote: On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 02:05:03PM +0200, Delian Krustev wrote: First are You sure the exact reconstruction of the iso is not possible with mkisofs ? What are your concerns, different versions of mkisofs producing different isoimages

Enlighten me about jigdo ..

2003-11-13 Thread Delian Krustev
Hi, I wonder what this hype about jigdo is .. What jigdo(lite) actually does(if I got it right ..): 1.get two files for an image - .jigdo, .template 2.download the listed files in the above two from a listed mirror using wget 3.run mkisofs to create the image what I see at first glance: 1.

Enlighten me about jigdo ..

2003-11-13 Thread Delian Krustev
Hi, I wonder what this hype about jigdo is .. What jigdo(lite) actually does(if I got it right ..): 1.get two files for an image - .jigdo, .template 2.download the listed files in the above two from a listed mirror using wget 3.run mkisofs to create the image what I see at first glance: 1.