On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 09:11:01PM -0700, Blars Blarson wrote: > I find the pseudo-image-kit-2.0 process overly complicated and > difficult to use, even for an experienced unix administrator. That's very true. > If I were to write a better drop-in replacement, would it be > considered for replacment of the current version? Don't do it - I've been working on a full replacement for almost a year. It is called jigdo (short for Jigsaw Download), and has the following advantages over the PIK: - doesn't need rsync, is entirely HTTP/FTP-based - no need to store complete CD images on the server - they are generated by downloading the individual .debs and assembling them to an image according to information in a so-called template file - the template file is relatively small, so many alternative CDs can be distributed without space problems - no need for dedicated CD image servers - all Debian FTP mirrors can automatically be used for downloading CD images - it is easy to produce alternative versions of CD images, e.g. J. Random Hacker could add his own packages to an official Debian CD and distribute that. He'll *only* need to upload his packages and the changed template file to his own webspace, *not* the complete CD contents. - user-friendly download with a GUI application, on Windows and Linux!!! (possibly also MacOS later on) The system already works, although I haven't yet set up a beta site for Debian CD images. The GUI application is not existent yet (currently working on it), but I've written a shell script which is roughly equivalent. The source tarball can be downloaded from <http://atterer.net/debian/>, prerelease i386 packages are available as: deb http://home.in.tum.de/atterer/debian unstable jigdo Cheers, Richard -- __ _ |_) /| Richard Atterer | CS student at the Technische | GnuPG key: | \/¯| http://atterer.net | Universität München, Germany | 0x888354F7 ¯ ´` ¯
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