Re: why not full CD/DVD images on cdimage.d.o?
On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 05:03:04PM +0200, Mateusz Poszwa wrote:
>On Sun, 12 May 2013 20:35:51 +0900
>Hideki Yamane <henrich@debian.or.jp> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> During Tokyo Debian meeting on Saturday, one participant asked
>> "why there's less DVD images on cdimage.d.o than MD5SUMS files?"
>>
>> Probably this would be to reduce unnecessary download, but
>> is there any information for this? (just curious)
>>
>
>Hello.
>
>This is a (very, very) frequently asked question:
>
>http://www.debian.org/CD/faq/#not-all-images
>
>Other disc images are meant to be downloaded/assembled with jigdo.
Absolutely, yes.
>Best regards.
>
>PS: By the way… I am thinking about launching a server which would
>provide images absent on the main mirror (as well as some archival
>ones). Is it desirable?
/me should really finish off jigdoofus to make this easy...
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