Re: .raw extension is misleading

2002-05-17 Thread Mattias Wadenstein
On Fri, 17 May 2002, Richard Atterer wrote: > On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 04:29:20PM +0100, Philip Hands wrote: > > On Tue, 2002-05-14 at 19:14, Richard Atterer wrote: > > > "jigdo/", not "jigdo-area/". (Not that it really matters...) > > > > I wasn't overly happy about using jigdo-area, but couldn't

Re: .raw extension is misleading

2002-05-17 Thread Richard Atterer
On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 04:29:20PM +0100, Philip Hands wrote: > On Tue, 2002-05-14 at 19:14, Richard Atterer wrote: > > "jigdo/", not "jigdo-area/". (Not that it really matters...) > > I wasn't overly happy about using jigdo-area, but couldn't think of > anything more appropriate. > > The reason

Re: .raw extension is misleading

2002-05-16 Thread Philip Hands
On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 22:44, jason andrade wrote: > On 15 May 2002, Philip Hands wrote: > > > I wasn't overly happy about using jigdo-area, but couldn't think of > > anything more appropriate. > > > > The reason not to call it simply "jigdo" is that the jigdo-area contains > > one or more versio

Re: .raw extension is misleading

2002-05-15 Thread jason andrade
On 15 May 2002, Philip Hands wrote: > I wasn't overly happy about using jigdo-area, but couldn't think of > anything more appropriate. > > The reason not to call it simply "jigdo" is that the jigdo-area contains > one or more versioned directories, each of which contains a jigdo and a > snapshot

Re: .raw extension is misleading

2002-05-15 Thread Philip Hands
On Tue, 2002-05-14 at 19:14, Richard Atterer wrote: > On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 03:22:37PM +0100, Philip Hands wrote: > > On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 14:51, jason andrade wrote: > > > o as a mirror site, where do i produce/get "authoritative" jigdo > > > files from? > > > o where do i put them ? > > >

Re: .raw extension is misleading

2002-05-14 Thread Richard Atterer
On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 03:22:37PM +0100, Philip Hands wrote: > On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 14:51, jason andrade wrote: > > o as a mirror site, where do i produce/get "authoritative" jigdo > > files from? > > o where do i put them ? > > Well, in the absence of a better idea, I settled on /jigdo-area/

RE: .raw extension is misleading

2002-05-13 Thread Martijn Stegeman
> -Original Message- > From: Philip Hands [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > IIRC the .raw extension was chosen because xcdroast (or something > similar) used that as it's default extension at the time debian-cd (or > probably slink-cd) was being written. > > The .iso extension was chosen fo

Re: .raw extension is misleading

2002-05-13 Thread jason andrade
On 13 May 2002, Philip Hands wrote: > It looks like it will all become moot with the new jigdo scheme anyway, > because jigdo creates .iso files, and the rsync mirror setup is not > really needed any more, so published .raw files are likely to become a > thing of the past. > > Is this an argumen

Re: .raw extension is misleading

2002-05-13 Thread Philip Hands
On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 12:44, jason andrade wrote: > On Mon, 13 May 2002, Richard Atterer wrote: > > > I could add an entry to the CD FAQ, if someone can give me a good > > answer to the question... :) > > > > What is a .raw file? > > > > It is exactly the same as an .iso file; you can just

RE: .raw extension is misleading

2002-05-13 Thread Ed Street
/CD/faq/#record-unix http://www.debian.org/CD/faq/#record-windows http://www.debian.org/CD/faq/#record-mac Hope this helps. > -Original Message- > From: Richard Atterer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, May 13, 2002 5:56 AM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Cc:

Re: .raw extension is misleading

2002-05-13 Thread jason andrade
On Mon, 13 May 2002, Richard Atterer wrote: > I could add an entry to the CD FAQ, if someone can give me a good > answer to the question... :) > > What is a .raw file? > > It is exactly the same as an .iso file; you can just rename it to > .iso and write it to CD-R. We use .raw for beta a

Re: .raw extension is misleading

2002-05-13 Thread Richard Atterer
On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 10:28:10AM +0200, Wuttke Joachim wrote: > This is the first time I am trying to get a "testing" distribution > from the net, and so I can confirm that for a first-time user the > extension ".raw" is indeed quite confusing. It took me quite a while > to find out that ".raw"