Guillermo Ballester Valor <gbv@oxixares.com> writes:
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:
We're using delta ISOs - that's a delta between two ISOs. Since we updated GCC after Beta1, we will recompile all packages with the new GCC and this means all packages will be different. In general I agree, jigdo is something we should work on together. Please discuss on the opensuse mailing list, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj@suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126