Re: A sugestion to build CD/DVD
On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 02:25:57PM +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> Hmmm. There is already a snapshot tree generated when the images are
> made each week, and the jigdos point to that. Is that not sufficient?
Not for people who start downloading immediately before new jigdos are made
available: The download can take a few days, so by the time jigdo tries the
fallback mirror, that mirror already applies to the current week's jigdo
files, not the previous week's.
> Or are you talking about keeping the snapshot trees around even longer?
Yes, but only in the sense that there must be an overlap of at least a few
days during which two snapshot trees are available.
I think this is fairly easy to implement in the jigdo files: You can have
something like the following to try this week's snapshot first, then last
week's snapshot:
[Servers]
Debian=http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/snapshot/cd/i386/Debian/ --try-last
Debian=http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/snapshot/cd/i386/lastweek-Debian/ --try-last
Apart from that, some additional disk space on gluck and a weekly "rm -rf
lastweek-Debian; mv Debian lastweek-Debian" is needed.
Cheers,
Richard
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