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

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 26 December 2007, David Boles wrote:
>Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Wednesday 26 December 2007, David Boles wrote:
>>> Gene Heskett wrote:
>>>> On Wednesday 26 December 2007, David Boles wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Maybe so, but you have obviously done this several times previously,
>>>> David. As far as the gui is concerned, no it is not needed, but the
>>>> majority of us would like to have one with 2 or three file requesters to
>>>> use, one for getting the src listing from the url, one for finding that
>>>> src list on your machine once its been downloaded, and one to tell it
>>>> where to put the results.  With such a working gui that launched the
>>>> jigdo-lite as a background process giving it the correct syntax and data
>>>> as derived from the file requesters, I'd bet that jigdo usage would
>>>> multiply by 10 in a week.
>>>
>>> I don't recall if I pointed you at this site page before or not. I have
>>> others. But it just about does not get more clear than this. Done by
>>> Fedora people, for Fedora people, to download Fedora isos.
>>>
>>>
>>> Using Jigdo to Download Re-Spin ISOs
>>> http://fedorasolved.org/post-install-solutions/jigdo/
>>>
>>>
>>> This site gives very good, clear instructions. They were for me. And, as
>>> an experiment, I just did this again while running Windows XP Pro. That
>>> was interesting because there are next to no instructions for that way.
>>> And none of the Linux instructions 'work' in the Windows jigdo. They are
>>> all actually writen for Debian isos and had to be edited.
>>>
>>> And yes I have done this before now. Several times. Just for giggles and
>>> grins. I have also, somewhere, the necessary rsync CLI that will let you
>>> 'change' a rc1 beta to a rc2 beta iso by just 'diffing' the changed
>>> parts of the contents between the two.
>>> --
>>
>> And that, David, TBT, makes a heck of a lot more sense.  That should be
>> published, but I suspect a carefull reading of the rsync docs would soon
>> re-invent that particular wheel.
>
>This got to bugging me. Many boxes of junk searches looking in notebooks
>later:
>
>
>Here is the information that I used. It is dated and I did have to
>'edit' it to fit what I was doing, from where, and where I was doing it.
>It was quite fast even on the 56k modem I was using at the time.
>
>The *exact* line that I used for this experiment was this: (all on one
>line - note the 'space' between .iso and .)
>
>rsync -auvH
>mirrors.usc.edu::mandrakelinux/official/iso/2007.0/DVD/mandriva-free-2007-DV
>D.iso .

ISTR I did something along those lines, but between machines on my own 
network, sucking it from my firewall box so the latest (ran it from a crontab 
entry) run was done at about or a bit ahead of firing off amanda for its 
nightly run.  AIR, I couldn't get amanda to jump the network at the time & 
this worked well.  Amanda was then backing up the local image 20 minutes 
later.

But I don't recall using the -H option.  If this is a shortcut for the "host:" 
option, my manpage does not so list it.  My copy is dated Nov 6, 2006.

>The information came from here:
>
>Using rsync to Update Mandrake-Linux ISO Images
>http://cybercfo.gkmweb.com/rsync-mandrakeiso.html
>
>Sometimes we have more time than brains.  ;-)
>
Chuckle, that we do David.  And its even worse when you are retired & have 
more time. :)

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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