Robert P. J. Day wrote: > ... regarding my jigdo instructions, i'm guessing ... > >> I have heard of "mount -o loop". But the instructions say one should >> insert a DVD, which I take to mean that one should insert a DVD. > > if this is meant to be a criticism of my HOWTO on jigdo, i can see > your point. however, to be fair, right near the top, i do in fact > emphasize: > > "Please read the rest of this page before trying any of it. Seriously. > I mean it. I'm not kidding." > > and further down the page, i also make it clear: > > "Note that if you have directory locations for other files that might > save time in the reconstruction process, just keep entering those > locations as you're prompted one at a time until you're done, and > finally just hit ENTER to let the construction begin. For the sake of > this exercise, we'll just assume you're working only with what's on > the original release DVD." > > so while i don't come ***right out*** and explain how to work with > an ISO image rather than a physical DVD, that above text should have > been enough for most people to draw the obvious logical inference and > to simply mount the ISO image somewhere and use its mount point as a > directory location. Dear Robert, I don't think "most people" would understand the remark above to mean that one should use "mount -o loop" on an ISO file. You over-estimate the knowledge and experience of "most" Linux users, I suspect. I was unduly critical of your instructions, but I still think you should say explicitly - by giving a concrete example - how to use jigdo with an ISO file as opposed to a DVD. >> The jigdo documentation is not very good, which is not surprising if >> the people writing it share your approach. I wasn't referring to you. Nor was I referring in particular to your documentation, which I found reasonably lucid, though I believe it could be improved as I suggest above. But it seems to me that if Fedora re-spins using jigdo are to become an official, or semi-official, part of Fedora then those creating the jigdos are under some obligation to explain how to use them. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
