Hello, Jigsaw Download 0.6.0 has been released. jigdo is the proposed replacement for the pseudo image kit. As of a few days ago, the first beta site offering downloads of Debian 2.2r4 via jigdo is available on cdimage. Thanks for the account, Phil! What's new in 0.6.0? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ First, because the "proper jigdo" (the GTK+ download manager type app) is not going to be finished anytime soon, I've written a small shell script called "jigdo-lite" which does an equivalent job. It downloads the .debs using wget and assembles them using jigdo-file. jigdo-lite is contained in the jigdo-file_0.6.0 package on my homepage. Install that .deb, run jigdo-lite, then follow the instructions. The .jigdo files that the program asks for are located at <http://cdimage.debian.org/~atterer/jigdo/>. Note that you can use jigdo-lite to "upgrade", say, from a 2.2r3 CD image to a 2.2r4 CD image. Please give me feedback about any success or failure! The second major news for 0.6.0 is that in the jigdo_0.6.0 package there is the very first, ***pre-alpha*** version of the GTK+ jigdo application. There is no download capability or other functionality present at all yet - the reason why I'm releasing it is for people to have a look at the GUI layout and tell me whether they like it. BTW, I already managed to compile jigdo under Windows - GTK+ and all! Comparison with the PIK ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Getting an account on cdimage enabled me to run jigdo-file on real-world data (Debian CD images + local Debian mirror) for the first time. It turns out that jigdo performs better than I ever hoped! :) If you look at <http://cdimage.debian.org/~atterer/jigdo/templates/>, the files there are the equivalent of the rsync traffic generated by the PIK. For the binary-i386-1 CD, jigdo only needs 1.2M, or 0.2% of the CD image size! Only alpha and sparc CDs need about 4.5M (0.7%). I believe the equivalent figures for the PIK were quite a bit higher, though still below 1%. But the main point is: jigdo doesn't need any special protocol, just HTTP/FTP! My long-term aim is to persuade ftpmaster@d.o to put these files in the main Debian FTP area and have them mirrored by all regular Debian mirrors. Help needed! ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Unfortunately, jigdo development has slowed down a lot since October because I have to study for my diploma. :-( I hope to get the GTK+ jigdo into a usable state before woody is released, but cannot promise anything. If somebody would like to help, there are several possibilities: - Setting up the generation of weekly CD snapshots of testing on cdimage, and their distribution via jigdo. - Maintaining the updated cdimage website. I've done a redesign (see other mail), but a lot of work still remains to be done. It would be nice if someone took this over, so that I can concentrate on jigdo. - Helping with the implementation of jigdo. This won't be easy since it'll require a lot of coordination between me and other people working on the code, but would be very welcome nevertheless! Where to get it ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Source and binaries are available from <http://atterer.net/jigdo/>. If you want to build the .debs, just unpack the source tarball, then "./configure && make deb". For aptable i386 debs use: deb http://home.in.tum.de/atterer/debian unstable jigdo All the best, Richard -- __ _ |_) /| Richard Atterer | CS student at the Technische | GnuPG key: | \/¯| http://atterer.net | Universität München, Germany | 0x888354F7 ¯ ´` ¯
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