Hello, I would like to OpenSUSE to consider the possiblity of use jigdo to download releases with a lot of save for servers and clients. I wrote a small comment in opensuse wiki I repeat here: We could use jigdo to download the ISO files with a lot few space used in mirrors and saving a lot of banwidth. In addition, OpenSuse could offer more formats (as DVD) with very few effort. This method has been used to reassemble the released double layer DVD for SuSE 9.3 into two single layer DVD. jigdo is used actively in distributions as Debian. You can read more about it at http://www.susewiki.org/index.php?title=Remastering_dvd_with_jigdo This time, OpenSUSE only should have to generate the 'jigdo' and 'template' files, with links to the ftp tree where to download the packages. Assume you have all the CD set of first beta. Then, 10 days later, a second beta is released. In this second beta only 10% of packages has changed. Why have you to download again all the isos, with 90% of repeated RPMS?. jigdo is here for help!. Basically, this is what we would have to do: 1) Download the jigdo and template files. Tipically few MB for a CD/DVD iso. 2) Mount the old version CD or DVD. To mount the ISO files are even better 3) jigdo-lite script will reuse all the needed contain from old media and will download the new files from ftp server, creating the new isos :) As result: A) The mirrors don't have to allocate all the possible set of CD/DVD isos, only the ftp tree with individual packages, and small jigdo files. B) The server save a lot of banwidth C) The clients save a lot of download time. It is interesting for most users with narrow bandwidth. Guillermo -- Guillermo Ballester Valor gbv@oxixares.com Ogijares, Granada SPAIN Linux user #117181. See http://counter.li.org/ Public GPG KEY http://www.oxixares.com/~gbv/pubgpg.html