RCs for Everyone (was One (more) week slip of Fedora 11 Release)
Robert 'Bob' Jensen
bob at fedoraunity.org
Fri May 29 14:01:56 UTC 2009
----- "Thorsten Leemhuis" <fedora at leemhuis.info> wrote:
> Just a short comment: Years ago someone made daily RCs avilable via
> an
> Rsync server. Thus it was very easy to get the latest RC -- you just
> rsynced the installer ISO you already had using rsync. As only small
> parts of the ISO changed from day to day it was just a few minutes
> task
> even with an not that fast internet connection.
>
> I haven't checked if that still works, but I guess it would. Of
> course
> not with the Live spins, as they are compressed and thus everything
> changes all the time. But maybe we could offer them as uncompressed
> images somewhere -- you could still test them using USB-Sticks, DVDs,
> or
> with visualization solutions like KVM, Qemu, and Virtual-Box.
>
Jigdo would work also to minimise what is download for each RC.
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