On Fri, 18 Jan 2002, J.A. Bezemer wrote: > > On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Richard Atterer wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 04:34:52PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > [..] > > > It seems the best thing would be to decide finally if we're going to > > > push jigdo or not. We can't have it recommended and mark it > > > <strong>beta</strong>, that's an oxymoron, at least in Debian. :) > > Start pushing now. As far as I'm concerned, jigdo has just left beta stage. > (That's the jigdo scheme, not necessarily jigdo 0.6.1 ;-) > > > On the future of the electronic Debian CD image distribution: I propose that > cdimage.debian.org will stop offering the CD images via rsync, as soon as > possible. Jigdo does a _much_ better job: the biggest template is only 8 MB > (alpha binary-1) and offering the templates via HTTP shouldn't produce any > significant load.
I agree with this. I just haven't suggested it, because I haven't dared to try and compile/use jigdo on our platform (AIX). From what I have read about it, it does seem to be the answer to the mirroring problem. > Mirrors can mirror the templates with wget. If a mirror admin has the > space/bandwidth, a simple script (print-missing>list, make-image > --files-from=list) can convert them quickly to full images (under 10 minutes > per image on my K6/450Mhz) when a local full Debian FTP mirror is available. Which would be much faster and less load on the master site than the current way of trying to find a mirror that has already gotten the images because cdimage.debian.org seems to be overloaded. (I can't even get to http://cdimage.debian.org/~costar/jigdo/ right now.) > So for end users we'll have two download methods: jigdo and HTTP/FTP. > First-tier mirrors (mirroring from cdimage.d.o) can only use jigdo. > The Pseudo-Image Kit and rsync download/mirroring will be discontinued. Well, except for second+-tier mirrors, I'm guessing that a bunch of the first-tier mirrors will have rsync in addition to HTTP/FTP. /Mattias Wadenstein - mostly interested in the mirroring problem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
