jigdo don't?

[Kam Leo]

On 4/24/07, Kam Leo <kam.leo at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/24/07, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net> wrote:
> > Greetings;
> >
> > I just installed jigdo, only to find its called jigsaw in the kmenu, thinking
> > it was something like a torrent manager, but apparently not.
> >
> > But the menu's require a true URL to the image, and if I point it in the upper
> > cli line, to the nearly 166KB jigdo file I downloaded from the fedoraunity
> > site, called FC-20070401-6-i386.jigdo, it claims it doesn't know how to
> > handle that file format yet.
> >
> > So, since this 'jigdo' thing will be stillborn for obvious reasons, where can
> > I find the .torrent for that respin?  I thought I saw a link to it once, but
> > the availability of fedoraunity.org seems to come and go, and I've not
> > managed to find the page with that link on it again.
> >
> > Ok, I got it to start by manually entering the URL to the exact same file I
> > had already downloaded.  That's a right cast iron pita when it can't be
> > copied & pasted from firefox...
> >
> > So either I need instructions on how to setup FF to start jigdo with that url
> > as an argument, or jigdo needs fixed.  Starting a download should not take 50
> > screen changes and 30 minutes to get it going.  Needless to say, I voted for
> > future releases in torrent because I can do this in azureus in just a minute
> > or so, plus time to carve a hole in my firewall.
> >
> > And now the transfer has been interrupted after about 70 of the 255 megs just
> > for the template, and now it wants to know where I live but refuses to take a
> > USA entry.  And under advanced it apparently needs a comma separated list of
> > url's.  How the hell should I know where in a 100 million servers where this
> > stuff is?  Rhetorical question obviously.
> >
> > Screw it, send jigdo back to finishing school, and where can I get
> > the .torrent file?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > --
> > Cheers, Gene
>
> It looks like the April 2007 respin is only offered via jigdo.  If you
> can get up to speed you might actually find that jigdo is actually
> faster than bittorrent. Especially, if you have the original or the
> previous respin CD/DVD handy.
>

Hey, Gene. For a moment I thought you were just being your grouchy
self. Having used Jigdo to download Debian distros I thought you might
have been a little too sensitive. However, after examining "Using
Jigdo to Download Re-Spin ISOs",
http://fedorasolved.org/post-install-solutions/jigdo/ , my head is
spinning and shaking at the same time. Their implementation is an
excellent example how not to use Jigdo. The implementation is too
complex. Users have to do too many things to get it to work!  Anyone
out there know if they contacted the Debian folks before setting out
and using Jigdo?