JTE - Jigdo Template Export - Faster Jigdo template generation

[Chuck Anderson]

On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 03:12:38PM -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 14:12 -0400, Chuck Anderson wrote:
> > 
> > I'm mentioning this here in case there is interest in moving toward 
> > this method for saving time when creating releases.  Then maybe there 
> > wouldn't be any need to delay when the jigdo templates are released 
> > vs. the bittorrent seed like we have with F9 Preview Release :-)
> 
> Interesting stuff, but the main delay is in getting mirrors synced up to
> turn on jigdo, not in generating the templates.  Getting torrent up is
> as simple as scping some isos to one box, not waiting for numerous
> systems to sync up around the world.

If you could release the templates ASAP, that would help the mirrors 
who already have the files locally in their rawhide trees.