Re: Accessibility of official jigdo files for Sarge
On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 01:35, Richard Atterer wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 04:58:09PM +0100, John Winters wrote:
> > I sell (amongst lots of other things) CDs of Debian Woody and testing
> > snapshots of Sarge. Currently it appears that the only way one can
> > download the official .jigdo files for unofficial Sarge CDs (!) is by
> > means of http from gluck.debian.org. This is inefficient, particularly
> > if one wants to keep doing it. Is there any way they could be made
> > available by rsync?
>
> IMHO, rsync is not more efficient for mirroring .jigdo/.template files than
> http/ftp, because all the data is gzipped. Some more mirrors for the images
> on gluck would still be nice, though.
So they are! Funny, I could have sworn the .template files used to be
text. Presumably my fractured imagination.
Further suggestion then - could an un-gzipped version be made available
by rsync *only*. The changes from week to week can only be small and it
would make sense to rsync the differences and re-build the files rather
than re-download what can be a very big file. (Some of the later ones
from fsn.hu have been 90M for just one (gzipped) .template file.)
John
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