Re: torrent of blu-ray ISO
Hi Carlos
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Carlos Carvalho <carlos@fisica.ufpr.br> wrote:
> Ken Teague (kteague@pobox.com) wrote on 23 September 2010 13:32:
> >Is there any impact of adding a torrent of the Blu-ray ISO image?
>
> Are you asking or offering?
I'm asking. My apologies for not being clear.
> Jigdo is to build the image, not pulling it; it'll only pull the
> packages.
To be honest, I haven't dug into it to see how the transfers are
facilitated. I'll look in to that.
> I was thinking about making the bd isos avaliable on
> ftp.br.debian.org/debian-cd. If there's somebody interested I might do
> it earlier. Download would have to be via rsync or a http client that
> not only can resume interrupted transfers but also check that the
> content is correct, because for a transfer of this size the
> probability of errors is significant. No torrents though.
>
> If I do it the bd images will only be available via another rsync
> module, to not through a big disk increase of unofficial content on
> downstream mirrors without previous notice.
It's very generous of you to offer this to the community.
Ken
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