CD images, mirrors, and jigdo

[Rahul Sundaram]

Tom Horsley wrote:
> So, here's an idea for Fedora 8 to reduce the size and load on
> the mirrors, while at the same time providing any number
> of predefined DVD and CD iso image downloads:
> 
> Get jigdo (or something similar) working with Fedora
> (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jigdo for info)
> 
> Then the mirrors only have to have the rpms themselves, no
> DVD images or CD images, just the template files for them.
> 
> Then make all the rpms available on bittorrent, allow any Fedora
> users to seed their yum cache on the torrent if they choose to,
> and downloads are likely to be faster with less load on mirrors.
> 
> A win-win all around!

The infrastructure team has already been discussing this. This is better 
send to fedora-infrastructure list especially if you want to get involved.

Rahul