Re: Creating jigdo files without loal file access
On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Patrick Strasser wrote:
> Philip Charles, the creator of the Debian/Hurd CDs, is located in New
> Zealand, and has only low bandwith capacity. He manages to fetch all
> necessary packages, but uploading 5 CDs takes much to long on his
> connection. So he gives the images to a friend, who has better
> connectivity and loads them up. This is quite complicated and takes
> time. That's why I'm investigating a way to build jigdo file sets
> without a big local filesystem, which is expensive to keep up to date;
> Philip would then build his CDs, make jigdo fiel sets, which are much
> smaller, and hopefully load tehm up himself, aving a lot of time. At the
> initial upload server someone runs jigdo and blows them up to full size.
>
> So all the CD creator does is managing the meta-information (CD
> structure and special packages/files). Thus he does not move around
> data, but just the additional data for oraganisation. I like this idea :-)
So do I.
I can always give prior notice of when I am freezing the mirror to produce
the CDs, then the CD creator can freeze theirs at the same time.
Boot floppies remain constant thoughout the K (or whatever) series,
however baseGNU.tgz and its associated floppies change with each release,
say 35-40 MB. There are some packages I have collected in addition to
those on alpha.gnu.ord which with alpha make up the local fs.
Andrew Mitchel is uploading the K2 images at the moment.
May be Andrew and I could be given access to a suitable machine and do the
job ourselves?
Phil.
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Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand
+64 3 488 2818 Fax +64 3 488 2875 Mobile 025 267 9420
philipc@copyleft.co.nz - preferred. philipc@debian.org
I sell GNU/Linux & GNU/Hurd CDs. See http://www.copyleft.co.nz
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