[Date Prev][Date Next] [Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

Re: Jigdo files for Sarge Netinst CD



On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 04:32:52PM +0300, Martin-Eric Racine wrote:
>On Mon, 25 Jul 2005, Steve McIntyre wrote:
>
>>On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 02:10:00PM +0300, Martin-Eric Racine wrote:
>>>I wanted to download the Netinst Sarge CD but then noticed that it's not
>>>available as an ISO for all architectures. I then tried downloading it as
>>>Jigdo files and ran into the same problem; not available for all arch.
>>
>>Which architecture(s) are you missing? Sarge Netinst ISO images are on
>>cdimage.d.o for all arches except s390 AFAICS...
>
>Then it would appear to be a problem with the Finnish mirror site, where 
>Jigdo and ISO files are missing for several architectures.

Oops :-(

>>>I'm wondering if it would be possible for the debian-cd team to generate
>>>Jigdo templates for all architectures and then pulse the mirrors?
>>
>>We decided not to do jigdo files for netinsts, as netinsts are already
>>fairly small. We can change that if people think it would be
>>worthwhile...
>
>I personally think that all CD and DVD variants should be available as 
>Jigdo files, if only to accomodate those who cannot use BitTorrent and 
>whose available bandwidth is already ridiculously tiny. It's also a lot 
>easier to cache all DEBs and build all variants locally.

OK, no problem. We'll add these to the list of jigdos to be built for
future releases.

-- 
Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve@einval.com
"...In the UNIX world, people tend to interpret `non-technical user'
 as meaning someone who's only ever written one device driver." -- Daniel Pead

Attachment: signature.asc
Description: Digital signature


Reply to: