CD images, mirrors, and jigdo

[Rahul Sundaram]

Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> 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.

Quick followup: Talked to Release Engineering and filed 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=245601

Rahul