On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 08:23:13AM +0100, Uwe Bugla wrote: > Am Dienstag, 18. März 2008 00:29:22 schrieb Richard Atterer: > > ?? 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. [...] > My question was about the essence and quality the "recipes" .template > and .jigdo are pointing to: There must be a resource where they take their > Debian package files from. > > My questions once more again: > > a. Is it one big resource of thousands of single Debian package files .jigdo > and .template are pointing to OR
Yes, that big resource is any Debian package mirror. > c. If the answer is (a), can we, according to Steve's question, stop > hosting all ISO images to reduce traffic? Yes, we /could/, but... > If not, where is the technical necessity to keep them for Internet > download as long as there are far more better download procedures like > jigdo for instance? People often prefer to use a simple .iso download rather than install and learn to use a new software tool, so offering the most popular images as .iso downloads makes sense. 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]
