On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:46:09 +0100 Steve Cotton <steve0001@s.cotton.clara.co.uk> wrote: > It's not necessary to download the ISO before seeding it. Jigdo > can take a template (28MB for DVD1) and combine it with files from > /var/cache/apt. BitTorrent can take the result, ignore the parts > corresponding to packages that weren't in /var/cache/apt, and seed > what you have. > > So people who've been running testing / unstable can boost the > start of the torrent. If the torrent's fast then downloaders are > less likely to give up and go back to HTTP. > > (Having proposed it, I'll offer to find/write the HOWTO for it) > Steve I'm interested. I know nothing of jigdo, but this would allow me to make torrent images available more quickly. Also, can you do this with any pool (such as one from apt-cacher-ng)? -- And that's my crabbing done for the day. Got it out of the way early, now I have the rest of the afternoon to sniff fragrant tea-roses or strangle cute bunnies or something. -- Michael Devore GnuPG Key Fingerprint 86 F5 81 A5 D4 2E 1F 1C http://gnupg.org The C Shore: http://www.wightman.ca/~cshore
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