Re: Creating jigdo files without loal file access

2003-03-06 Thread Philip Charles
On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Patrick Strasser wrote: > Hello again! > > I'm sorry to corrct myself, but things turned out to get better. > The template size of 101 Mb was without alph.gnu.org packages. With > alpha packages it's 62 MB. Wich I think is quite ok. 37 MB in disks-hurd-i386 is unique to K2, so

Re: Creating jigdo files without loal file access

2003-03-06 Thread Philip Charles
On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Patrick Strasser wrote: > Hello again! > > I'm sorry to corrct myself, but things turned out to get better. > The template size of 101 Mb was without alph.gnu.org packages. With > alpha packages it's 62 MB. Wich I think is quite ok. 37 MB in disks-hurd-i386 is unique to K2, so

Re: Creating jigdo files without loal file access

2003-03-06 Thread Patrick Strasser
Hello again! I'm sorry to corrct myself, but things turned out to get better. The template size of 101 Mb was without alph.gnu.org packages. With alpha packages it's 62 MB. Wich I think is quite ok. I'll have a try on the second CD. I'm curious about the template size, which I expect to be quite

Re: Creating jigdo files without loal file access

2003-03-06 Thread Patrick Strasser
Hello! I found an elagant way to solve a lot of problems with help of Debian's md5sums file and 'join'. I set up a script that sorts out files that have the same checksum in the Hurd image and on Debian servers, and sets up a link structure like the file system structure on Debian servers, but

Re: Creating jigdo files without loal file access

2003-03-06 Thread Patrick Strasser
Hello again! I'm sorry to corrct myself, but things turned out to get better. The template size of 101 Mb was without alph.gnu.org packages. With alpha packages it's 62 MB. Wich I think is quite ok. I'll have a try on the second CD. I'm curious about the template size, which I expect to be quit

Re: Creating jigdo files without loal file access

2003-03-06 Thread Patrick Strasser
Hello! I found an elagant way to solve a lot of problems with help of Debian's md5sums file and 'join'. I set up a script that sorts out files that have the same checksum in the Hurd image and on Debian servers, and sets up a link structure like the file system structure on Debian servers, but

Re: Creating jigdo files without loal file access

2003-03-04 Thread Richard Atterer
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 12:33:24PM +0100, Patrick Strasser wrote: > Richard Atterer wrote: > >it is mandatory with Debian CDs to set up a "fallback mirror", > > I'm aware of this effect. I have talked to Attila Nagy from fsn.hu, > which host a fallback directory for the snapshots. He said setting

Re: Creating jigdo files without loal file access

2003-03-04 Thread Philip Charles
On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Patrick Strasser wrote: > Philip Charles, the creator of the Debian/Hurd CDs, is located in New > Zealand, and has only low bandwith capacity. He manages to fetch all > necessary packages, but uploading 5 CDs takes much to long on his > connection. So he gives the images to a f

Re: Creating jigdo files without loal file access

2003-03-04 Thread Richard Atterer
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 12:33:24PM +0100, Patrick Strasser wrote: > Richard Atterer wrote: > >it is mandatory with Debian CDs to set up a "fallback mirror", > > I'm aware of this effect. I have talked to Attila Nagy from fsn.hu, > which host a fallback directory for the snapshots. He said setting

Re: Creating jigdo files without loal file access

2003-03-04 Thread Philip Charles
On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Patrick Strasser wrote: > Philip Charles, the creator of the Debian/Hurd CDs, is located in New > Zealand, and has only low bandwith capacity. He manages to fetch all > necessary packages, but uploading 5 CDs takes much to long on his > connection. So he gives the images to a f

Re: Creating jigdo files without loal file access

2003-03-04 Thread Patrick Strasser
Richard Atterer wrote: Hi Patrick, On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 12:37:06PM +0100, Patrick Strasser wrote: In short, I want to produce jigdo files for the Debian/Hurd CD set, but I don't have access to, don't want to setup , and don't have the space for a mirror. My first reaction: This will be difficul

Re: Creating jigdo files without loal file access

2003-03-04 Thread Patrick Strasser
Richard Atterer wrote: Hi Patrick, On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 12:37:06PM +0100, Patrick Strasser wrote: In short, I want to produce jigdo files for the Debian/Hurd CD set, but I don't have access to, don't want to setup , and don't have the space for a mirror. My first reaction: This will be diffi

Re: Creating jigdo files without loal file access

2003-03-03 Thread Richard Atterer
Hi Patrick, On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 12:37:06PM +0100, Patrick Strasser wrote: > In short, I want to produce jigdo files for the Debian/Hurd CD set, but I > don't have access to, don't want to setup , and don't have the space for > a mirror. My first reaction: This will be difficult! :) By far the

Re: Creating jigdo files without loal file access

2003-03-03 Thread Richard Atterer
Hi Patrick, On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 12:37:06PM +0100, Patrick Strasser wrote: > In short, I want to produce jigdo files for the Debian/Hurd CD set, but I > don't have access to, don't want to setup , and don't have the space for > a mirror. My first reaction: This will be difficult! :) By far the

Creating jigdo files without loal file access

2003-03-03 Thread Patrick Strasser
Hello, In short, I want to produce jigdo files for the Debian/Hurd CD set, but I don't have access to, don't want to setup , and don't have the space for a mirror. I tried to get some script fetch the lslR-file from a mirror and filter it to match the paths and filenames, but this did not work,

Creating jigdo files without loal file access

2003-03-03 Thread Patrick Strasser
Hello, In short, I want to produce jigdo files for the Debian/Hurd CD set, but I don't have access to, don't want to setup , and don't have the space for a mirror. I tried to get some script fetch the lslR-file from a mirror and filter it to match the paths and filenames, but this did not work