On Saturday 20 November 2004 08:19, David Fletcher wrote: > It has occurred to me that there See www.debian.org, follow linksregarding downloadng and read up on Jigdo. Jigdo, as used by Debian, takes an ISO and splits out a couple of files one of which is a skeleton (template) for the original file. Users download the templates and run Jigdo to fill them out from one or more sources. SOurces can be another ISO (maybe of a previous version - think Nahant) and one or more mirrors. The result is as you would expect, md5sum-perfect. It would be perfectly feasible to distribute just the templates and the rpms and other bigger files required to complete the ISOs. Not only that, but templates CD ISOs DVD ISOs sans source DVD ISOs inc source If size warrants it, DL-sized ISOs. Nahant is actually quite a good example. It comes in four versions; one different first ISO for each and then four or five common. For approx the same amount of downloading I could have four DVDs instead of eight or nine CDs and each DVD would be complete in itself. -- Cheers John
