Re: Debian 3.0 released. Jigdo files available.
On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 08:32:59PM +0200, Richard Atterer wrote:
>On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 04:33:34PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote:
>> The one last thing that would make this perfect would be to
>> (somehow, I know it's hard) have jigdo create output on a pipe ready
>> to go straight into cdrecord with no intermediate image files...
>
>It's possible:
>
> jigdo-file make-image --template=foo.template --image=- \
> --cache=~/.jigdo-file-cache.db /my-debian-mirror/ \
> | cdrecord ...
Now that _is_ cool. I'll play with it now. I presume that in a pipe
jigdo will then not attempt to checksum the image?
>I'd be interested in knowing whether this works - I've never tried it
>myself. It might be necessary to use "bfr" inbetween jigdo-file and
>cdrecord for some additional buffering.
And thanks for mentioning bfr too - it's a tool I've seen a need for
for some time, but never spent the effort to write it. On a machine
with 512MB of memory, it would be useful to tell the system to use
half of RAM for buffering CD writes at 24x...
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