Re: What CDs and DVDs should we produce for lenny?
On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 08:23:13AM +0100, Uwe Bugla wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 18. März 2008 00:29:22 schrieb Richard Atterer:
> > ?? Not quite sure what you mean. Basically, it uses .jigdo and
> > .template files as a "recipe" to build an ISO image from downloaded regular
> > .deb packages.
[...]
> My question was about the essence and quality the "recipes" .template
> and .jigdo are pointing to: There must be a resource where they take their
> Debian package files from.
>
> My questions once more again:
>
> a. Is it one big resource of thousands of single Debian package files .jigdo
> and .template are pointing to OR
Yes, that big resource is any Debian package mirror.
> c. If the answer is (a), can we, according to Steve's question, stop
> hosting all ISO images to reduce traffic?
Yes, we /could/, but...
> If not, where is the technical necessity to keep them for Internet
> download as long as there are far more better download procedures like
> jigdo for instance?
People often prefer to use a simple .iso download rather than install and
learn to use a new software tool, so offering the most popular images as
.iso downloads makes sense.
Cheers,
Richard
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