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Re: Distribution and support for Debian-502-i386-netinst



On Sun, 2011-12-04 at 15:25 +0200, George Danchev wrote:
> On Sun, 04 Dec 2011 12:38:35 +0000, Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk> 
>  wrote:
> > On Sat, 2011-12-03 at 19:35 +0000, Philipp Kern wrote:
> >> On 2011-12-03, Marc Haber <mh+debian-devel@zugschlus.de> wrote:
> >> > On Fri, 2 Dec 2011 18:58:55 +0000 (UTC), Philipp Kern
> >> ><trash@philkern.de> wrote:
> >> >>On 2011-12-02, Marc Haber <mh+debian-devel@zugschlus.de> wrote:
> >> >>> I also support this and think it is a really good idea. But 
> >> please
> >> >>> keep x.y.z-1 around and easily accessible when x.y.z is 
> >> released.
> >> >>You can jigdo any old CD image.
> >> > How do I do this for a past point release, such as, 6.0.1, for
> >> > example?
> >>
> >> You use jigdo?  Try it, it works.
> >
> > In my experience jigdo does not work for a CD release of a previous
> > point release because some of the packages referenced by the jigdo 
> > are
> > removed from the mirrors i.e. those which have been updated.
> 
>  Actually jigdo has a mechanism to fallback to a certain server for 
>  packages it can not download from the given mirror. That is:
>  [...]

Interesting, thanks.

>  (yes, this is not very convenient)

Indeed ;-)

Ian.

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