On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Richard Atterer wrote:
> - making special CD image mirrors completely unnecessary - /any/
> Debian mirror can be used to download the images
interesting.
> - getting rid of rsync. rsync is a cool program and works well for
> syncing images between mirrors, but it's not good to use for end
> users because it puts such a high load on the server. (Also,
> corporate firewalls often block the port.)
i would agree to a certain point - rsync is a great tool for intermirror
stuff.. but it doesn't scale at all well - i believe it is on the todo
list for rsync 3 if/when it gets developed.
> jigdo by itself cannot generate the image. It's more like a
> post-processing stage: The finished image is fed to jigdo which
> generates the much smaller ".template" file, in which .deb package
> contents are replaced with references to the package (via a checksum).
> Using the template and your local Debian mirror, you can recreate the
> image.
so the end user runs jigdo and points it at their closest mirror and it
builds the image for em - much like PIK ?
-jason
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