Re: Redesign of cdimage website
lance <lance@uklinux.net> writes:
> On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, Alexander Skwar wrote:
>
> > So sprach »Philip Hands« am 2001-11-16 um 14:54:25 +0000 :
> > > What do people think about not actually having official images of the
> > > CDs, just jigdo specs, and a signed MD5SUM file.
> >
> > Hm, what about people who don't have a fast and cheap internet
> > connection? Where should they get Debian?
>
> Or people who dont have an internet connection at all cos thats what
> they want to install Debian for ??
Hi Lance,
They get them from you, obviously :-)
I wasn't suggesting that we dispense with the whole concept of
official cdimages. Simply that we don't bother with all the
mirroring, and keeping them on disk, when we can instead simply
distribute a jigdo recipe and then have people build their own
bit-for-bit copy of the official CD image. This being despite the fact
that the official CD image would have been discarded after the MD5SUMs
had been calculated, and jigdo had extracted the information needed to
rebuild it.
A bit like defining a meter in terms of the speed of light in a
vacuum, and then throwing away the "official meter", on the basis that
anyone that needs a physical meter can build their own, using a torch,
a good stopwatch, and a space-shuttle ;-)
I doubt we'll do this for woody though. I was just seeing if anyone
knew any reasons why we might not eventually do this, given that
keeping images is going to get progressively more difficult, what with
the increasing numbers of packages and architectures, and the advent
of DVDs, and the possibility of doing tuned CDs for specialist
purposes.
Cheers, Phil.
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