On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 12:41:28PM +0200, Robert Schiele wrote:
You mean you want the 5 CD set? Well, in that case you need the appropriate jigdo file from the same directory. boot.jigdo is the one to create the network install image.
Now I am confused. I thought jigdo would make some differences between an old version and a new version.
I _don't_ consider this as an alternative to the delta images but as an alternative to downloading full blown ISO images. The delta images should stay because they are are very good solution.
Uhm. What will the impact for me as a user be? Why would I use this instead of the ISO's? Unless you can guarantee a simple click-click for the the end-user, they will want iso's If openSUSE would decide to drop the ISO's and go completely for jigdo, people will see this as unuserfriendly. As being userfriendly is one of the main goals, this should not be done. <snip>
There is a misunderstanding: jigdo does not compare to a specific old image but to a set of files. It does not matter on which media they are located. It just scans a local directory (if specified) for files already present and then downloads all missing ones. When it has got all needed files it assembles the final ISO image.
With that I see no advantage for the enduser to use it if I can just click on either a torrent or iso link. I see that mirrors would need less space, but users will not like to use it. So from the mirrors point of view: good
From the users point of view: bad
Who are you making the distro for? -- houghi http://www.opensuse.org/index.php/Making_a_DVD_from_CDs