Sponsor Request: jigdo

[Michael A. Peters]

On 04/15/2005 02:08:01 PM, Chuck R. Anderson wrote:
> I'd like to import jigdo into CVS.  I've built and tested this on  
> FC3.


I've got a crazy thought -

I wonder if jigdo and bt could work together. I don't mean jigdo use  
bt, I mean use jigdo to create the .iso.tmp from rawhide packages on a  
machine, and then start up bittorent with the partial iso from jigdo.

I'd like to try it with FC4T3 and see if bittorrent is able to work  
starting from an incomplete iso created by jigdo.

If it does work, the benefit is that those with rawhide on their  
systems could use bt to get the rest of what they don't have, and bt  
would benefit because there would be more seeds early on.

Chuck - are you planning to create a .jigdo file for test3?

With test2 - jigdo found 85% of the files in my rawhide mirror (by  
file, not by size - I don't know by size) - if it works, I'll post  
instructions to the test list so that *possibly* fc4 release torrent  
could benefit. If it works, it certainly is better efficient use of  
bandwidth for peer seeding of the torrent.

I know that bad downloads can be fixed via bittorent (the client will  
scan it, throw away the bad parts, and refetch them) so I think it  
might work.

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Michael A. Peters
http://mpeters.us/