Announcing Fedora Activity Day - Fedora Development Cycle 2009
Michael Cronenworth
mike at cchtml.com
Tue Jun 2 20:13:14 UTC 2009
Björn Persson wrote:
>
> A program similar to Jigdo could speed this up. Transfer only the RPM packages
> (taking advantage of hard links) and information on what packages are in each
> ISO image, and then recreate the ISO images at the destination. That way each
> package would only be transferred once, regardless of how many ISO images it
> occurs in.
>
Jigdo doesn't work in Fedora unless you want to implement a
self-compiling jigdo creator. Why? 'Cause old Fedora updates are not
kept on mirrors. A Jigdo file you create today may not work next week.
Bad, bad, bad. k?
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