F9 Beta (my first) impressions

[John Summerfield]

Ronald wrote:
> Jesse Keating wrote:
>> On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 17:06 -0400, ronald wrote:
>>  
>>> - A netinst-jigdo would be a good think for rawhide testers, which can't
>>> boot with the current netinstall.iso's or if iso's temp. not available.
>>> (expense/profit ?, I don't know !)
>>>     
>>
>> Can you expand upon this a bit?  The netinst.iso doesn't have very many
>> files on it, so I'm not sure what the value of jigdo is vs just
>> downloading it from the http server(s).
>>
>>   
> sure. and I mentioned it with "expense/profit" eg. download ~100 MB 
> versus building a jigdo.
> I don't know how much work is needed to build an jigdo.

man mkisofs
It's fairly simple these days.

> as I know and do jigdo takes  parts of an "old" source, maybe the old 
> netinst.iso and AFAIK gets the rest from the tree.
> if I'm right  here, then in the case where no netinstall.iso's avaible 
> one is able to fresh up his/her iso's from the current rawhide tree.

A user needs the .jigdo file. a .template file, and access to a repo 
with all the files. A local ISO file to update is a bonus.



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