Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 11:56:43PM +0200, Maciej Dems wrote: >> > Of course this won't be created online, but such images could be put >> > on web after some time and could be identified with some session id. >> > (in addition user would be forced to confirm such creation by >> > email/whatever to not overload mirror/server) >> Or maybe it would be better to use the jigdo? The user specifies the >> packages and the jigdo template is automatically created for him. Than he >> can download the necessary packages from his favourite mirror and burn >> the CD/DVD.
That's actually what I was about to recommend. :-) > Of course! Now I can't believe I didn't think about jigdo first... probably > because I'm not very familiar with it. > > Assuming that it allows to create custom isos then it's great for this > purpose. > > In fact alongside picking up custom packages we could create some > predefined (maybe based on the popularity) templates. > > Anyone willing to work on it? Maybe some Alioth project? > I'm not DD yet so someone else would be forced to create such project. > But I would like to contribute in such addition to project. How difficult is it to generate jigdo templates on the fly? It sounds like a fun project if that's not too difficult a task.
