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Re: scripting jigdo-lite



On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 03:50:34PM +0200, Richard Atterer wrote:
>On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 08:24:29AM -0500, Carl Karsten wrote:
>> How can I keep jigdo-lite from asking for 'Debian mirror"?
>> 
>> jigdo-lite --help
>> shows
>>       --scan PATH  Don't ask for "Files to scan", use this path
>> 
>> shouldn't there also be a --mirror option?
>
>jigdo-lite was not designed to be used for automatic mirroring. See 
><http://www.debian.org/CD/mirroring/> for more info. I wrote jigdo-mirror 
>for that. However, jigdo-mirror is not as widely used as jigdo-lite, it may 
>still have more bugs than jigdo-lite.

And I wrote mkimage (in the jigit package) as another option for
people working with jigdo files. It doesn't directly support
downloading missing files like jigdo-lite, but if you have an
up-to-date local mirror it can be potentially quite a bit faster...

-- 
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

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