Am Dienstag, 18. März 2008 10:30:09 schrieb Richard Atterer: > 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. >
In practice this procedure may be appropriate downloading CDROM ISO images. But downloading DVDROM images that way is too risky IMHO. If you offer a graphical version of jigdo additionally to jigdo-lite as command line tool, building up a very long term consisting of mirrorsite + directory + long file name will be extremely simplified. So there won't be any effort to learn how to deal with a new tool if the tool explains itself intuitively. It's command line typing which is building up the barrier.... :) Thank you for your answers! > Cheers, > > Richard > Cheers Uwe > -- > __ _ > > |_) /| Richard Atterer | GnuPG key: 888354F7 > | \/¯| http://atterer.net | 08A9 7B7D 3D13 3EF2 3D25 D157 79E6 F6DC > | 8883 54F7 > > ¯ '` ¯
