how to jigdo download a fedora 8 re-spin in one easy step?

[Karl Larsen]

Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>   for the first time, i'd like to download the fedora 8 x86_64 re-spin
> and, to be frank, there's not a single web page i've found that tells
> me how to use jigdo to do it.
>
>   i've perused the tutorials and HOWTOs at fedoraunity.org and
> followed links, and i'm now fairly conversant on the rationale behind
> re-spins and why jigdo was developed and a whole lot of other stuff
> but i've yet to find a single page that says, "oh, you want a re-spin?
> follow these steps."
>   
    My problem was the man page tells you what console-perms is and who 
wrote it but nothing about how to use it. I looked around and found by 
accident how to use it.

    So I tried to join the Fedora Documentation group and found the 
documentation on how to do this, and a flacky old computer at MIT made 
this a 2 week effort. Since I started trying to join the people in the 
group are trying to make it easier to do so.

    When I learn to use their wiki pages I will write down how to use 
console-perms in plain simple English. It takes a lot longer than I thought.

Karl



>   seriously, this is what i think has been a fundamental failing of a
> lot of online fedora documentation -- the notion of a simple "recipe":
> do these things, and you will get what you want.  instead, there's
> typically a great deal of philosophical substantiation, while the poor
> reader is just sitting there, thinking, "well, yeah, but i just want
> to *do* something, so how do i *do* it?"  (it's sort of like, when i
> ask someone for the time, i want them to tell me the time, i don't
> need to be told how to build a watch.)
>
>   so, really, when i decided to grab a re-spin, i figured to invest a
> minute or two googling, find the command, and run it.  i'm still
> looking.  why is it typically this time-consuming?
>
> rday
>
>
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> Robert P. J. Day
> Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry
> Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA
>
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