Re: Content of CDs / DVDs
Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo <fenio@o2.pl> writes:
> On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 11:56:43PM +0200, Maciej Dems wrote:
>> > Of course this won't be created online, but such images could be put
>> > on web after some time and could be identified with some session id.
>> > (in addition user would be forced to confirm such creation by
>> > email/whatever to not overload mirror/server)
>> Or maybe it would be better to use the jigdo? The user specifies the
>> packages and the jigdo template is automatically created for him. Than he
>> can download the necessary packages from his favourite mirror and burn
>> the CD/DVD.
That's actually what I was about to recommend. :-)
> Of course! Now I can't believe I didn't think about jigdo first... probably
> because I'm not very familiar with it.
>
> Assuming that it allows to create custom isos then it's great for this
> purpose.
>
> In fact alongside picking up custom packages we could create some
> predefined (maybe based on the popularity) templates.
>
> Anyone willing to work on it? Maybe some Alioth project?
> I'm not DD yet so someone else would be forced to create such project.
> But I would like to contribute in such addition to project.
How difficult is it to generate jigdo templates on the fly? It sounds
like a fun project if that's not too difficult a task.
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