On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 09:17:03PM +0100, Uwe Bugla wrote: [Uh - huge quote snipped. If you want people to read what you wrote, don't precede it with screens of other text...] > b. jigdo uses only a small amount of specialized dedicated servers for > download, not every server in this world available at the moment.
Not quite! jigdo uses _any_standard_ HTTP/FTP server, no special support is required on the server side. That's by design: It should be capable of using any normal Debian package mirror for the download of ISO images. > I do know that jigdo is a tool for distributed download of Debian package > files and local production of CD images and DVD images. > My question is: > To what does jigdo refer? > a. To published ISO images or > b. to one big Debian repository where it picks out single package files from? ?? Not quite sure what you mean. Basically, it uses .jigdo and .template files as a "recipe" to build an ISO image from downloaded regular .deb packages. Cheers, Richard -- __ _ |_) /| Richard Atterer | GnuPG key: 888354F7 | \/¯| http://atterer.net | 08A9 7B7D 3D13 3EF2 3D25 D157 79E6 F6DC 8883 54F7 ¯ '` ¯ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
