On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 09:00:50PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > What's going to be made available where for release? Just jigdo > stuff? ISTR Phil wanted to do all isos for i386 and 1..2 CDs' isos for the other arches, the rest with jigdo. (Correct me if I'm wrong.) > How are mirrors going to be expected to mirror stuff -- directly or > with jigdo? How're CD vendors expected to mirror stuff? I've written a "jigdo-mirror" script (in the latest jigdo source tarball) which mirror admins can use to "inflate" the jigdos to real images if they have the disk space. It /could/ do with a bit of testing though - so far AFAIK only Mattias has tried it. In addition to that, for all images stored on cdimage, the regular rsync mirroring is available. BTW, it is possible to write a CGI which serves the complete images while *not* storing them locally - it generates them on the fly from the jigdo files and a local Debian mirror. That way, no additional disk space is needed. The only thing that's missing is someone who wants to write this CGI. ;-) > Are the jigdo images for i386 likely to be broken now since some of > the packages that were in the archive on the 8th of April will have > been removed from the mirrors by now? They are broken, I think. For the woody release, a snapshot will be taken of the archive at the time of the release. Later, that snapshot can be used by jigdo as a fallback when any file changes. > How long's it take to build them all? I've never done it myself, but I think it's something like 10..15 hours including everything (on cdimage, which is usually rather loaded). On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 10:35:05PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > ...stopping when you run out of space. There's probably not a huge > amount of value in offering more than the jigdo stuff for CD's > beyond number 1 Well, I hope jigdo will be up to it. It certainly works nicely as long as no file in the archive changes or disappears... [OTOH, with the current 2.2r6 release, for some bizarre reason the gentoo source deb has changed its md5sum since the images were generated, so source-2 can no longer be regenerated. If we rely on jigdo exclusively, such things might happen every now and then.] Cheers, Richard -- __ _ |_) /| Richard Atterer | CS student at the Technische | GnuPG key: | \/¯| http://atterer.net | Universität München, Germany | 0x888354F7 ¯ '` ¯
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