Re: Getting Debian updates onto a slow bandwidth system
On Fri, 28 Oct 2005 22:18:12 +0200
Kjetil Kjernsmo <kjetil@kjernsmo.net> wrote:
> A somewhat related question: Can jigdo, when building CDs, take the
> updates and replace the packages that has been updated, in the install
> image?
It's supposed to be able to do that, if you put the CD in the drive
mountpoint and type in its path, it should scan the contents of the CD
when building the image. Of course, you need to write the new ISO
(because it contains new files) onto another media.
Speaking of which, I have recent sarge and etch DVDs I got from jigdo.
The jigdo faq suggests that the etch snapshots are regenerated weekly -
but when I visit the ftp site for the template and jigdo files, they
are timestamped 10-19-2005, which is about when I downloaded the latest
etch dvd.
I am considering to (since I have rewriteable DVDs) track etch for a
while, with a possiblity of someday (maybe soon?) installing the system
from the media. But while I'm making that decision I'm sticking with
sarge. I figure I could do just that - regerate the new images from the
old ones with minimal actual downloading, but I can't test it (yet)
because the new etch images aren't there.
> Kjetil
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