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Re: Sarge r7 CDs released



On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 12:34:25PM +0100, Mattias Wadenstein wrote:
>On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, Frans Pop wrote:
>
>>On Tuesday 22 January 2008, Steve McIntyre wrote:
>>>On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 08:12:11PM +0100, Jens Franik wrote:
>>>>Guten Tag Mattias Wadenstein,
>>>>
>>>>am Sonntag, 20. Januar 2008 um 10:29 schriebst Du:
>>>>But the only item, which has been downloaded until now is
>>>>the Update-i386-DVD with 1,26 Mb - nothing more.
>>>>
>>>>I guess nobody really needs them :-)
>>>
>>>Yup. Oldstable point releases are like that. There tends to be rather
>>>more interest in new major stable releases, as you might imagine. :-)
>>
>>How about just removing the directory for bittorent and any links to it for
>>oldstable? If we cannot seed the images and they unlikely to get seeded
>>much by others, should we really offer bittorent at all?
>>
>>Wouldn't it be better to just offer jigdo and the ISOs and be done with it?
>
>An alternative, that I've been thinking that we should include in the 
>torrents is: http://getright.com/seedtorrent.html
>
>But it requires some changes in how torrents are currently generated 
>(either switch of generating software or some python hacking).

/me really needs to get jigdoofus finished. Then we'd be able to offer
full ISOs and bittorrents using just the jigdo files and the mirror
(for at least older images). ENOTUITS.

-- 
Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve@einval.com
"Every time you use Tcl, God kills a kitten." -- Malcolm Ray


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