How to generate a .template and .jigdo from an iso image?

[Marcelo M. Garcia]

Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
> On 05/08/2009 08:35 AM, Marcelo M. Garcia wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I read the man page. It says that I have to specify only one of the
>> options "-i", "-j" or "-t". OK. If I use only -i, my template has the
>> same size of image, then there is no point in using jigdo. There must be
>> something more.
>>
>> My question is how Fedora generates the .template with only 11.1M? The
>> command "jigdo-file -i CentOS-5.3-i386-bin-DVD.iso" it's not enough.
>>
> 
> Attached is the script Fedora Unity uses to jigdofy it's Re-Spins. Note 
> the "function jigdofy()" in the top that may just help you get the 
> syntax right.
> 
> Note the double slash in the two directories passed to the "jigdo-file 
> make-template" command, which functions as a delimiter for jigdo-file, 
> so that in the --label parameter, we can 'label' the path and then 
> attach a URI (--uri) to be used in the resulting .jigdo file instead.
> 
> $1 is the (fully qualified) path to the .iso image,
> $2 is the base architecture for the .iso image (i386, x86_64 or ppc in 
> our case), and
> ${version} is the Fedora $releasever (9 or 10 right now).
> 
> Also note that /data/os/distr/fedora is a local, full mirror and that 
> /data/os/archive/fedora is a local, full archive (with package files 
> that have been removed from the mirror because for example they've 
> expired and have been superseeded by another update to said package).
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Jeroen van Meeuwen
> -kanarip
> 
Hi Jeroen

Many thanks for that.

Regards

mg.