without a truly working "jigdo", re-spins are effectively useless

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On 03/12/2009 10:06 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
>
> ll that work every time? Of course not.
>   
> The problem is that Fedora mirrors do not keep older updates, so the jigdo
> file just doesn't work. By the time the respin goes out, it already
> references updates which no longer exist. (For example, this respin has KDE
> 4.1.4 on it. By the time it was released, we had already pushed KDE 4.2.0,
> so the 4.1.4 updates are no longer available. The more time passes, the
> more updates are affected.)
>
>         Kevin Kofler
>
>   
  And with pungi there really is no added value to jigdo - pungi is
simple and fast and will use whatever updates you want.
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