On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 08:05:29AM +0200, houghi wrote:
On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 01:33:52AM +0200, Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote:
So the best way would be not to release ISOs at all (exception: boot.iso), but to publish a script which can build each ISO by fetching the files from the inst-source tree.
I like the idea. I really do. It just somehow does not seem workable. Th e reason is that many people (also on this list) do not have a high speed connection at the place the instalation will be.
You don't need that for this idea. It does not make a difference which sort if internet connection you have whether you download one file of 1GB size or a script downloads 1000 files each of 1MB size.
Also you would have a CD or DVD burner in the machine that does the instalation.
You don't need that as well.
What I DO see is a script (mine adapted or a new one) that is on http://opensuse.org/index.php/1_CD_install and does the needed downloads.
This is exactly what Eberhard said. But I still think jigdo is better than a script because a script has so many dependencies to additional tools that it is quite error prone for the average user. jigdo could be used even by a novice user that is capable of burning iso images on every platform.
I am afraid most people will still want to be able to have everything, no matter if they use it or not. People are like that. They want to ahve, meaning feel or see them, so they know it is theirs.
Sure there are some of these people. But even then you don't have the packages duplicated on the FTP servers in the inst-source directory and the images.
Again, I like the idea. Just a bit afraid that ythe average person would think it to be strange/difficult.
I am sure it is not more difficult to explain jigdo to the average user than it is to explain how to burn ISO images. Robert -- Robert Schiele Tel.: +49-621-181-2214 Dipl.-Wirtsch.informatiker mailto:rschiele@uni-mannheim.de