On Wednesday 26 December 2007, David Boles wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Wednesday 26 December 2007, David Boles wrote: >>> Gene Heskett wrote: >>>> On Wednesday 26 December 2007, David Boles wrote: >>>> >>>> Maybe so, but you have obviously done this several times previously, >>>> David. As far as the gui is concerned, no it is not needed, but the >>>> majority of us would like to have one with 2 or three file requesters to >>>> use, one for getting the src listing from the url, one for finding that >>>> src list on your machine once its been downloaded, and one to tell it >>>> where to put the results. With such a working gui that launched the >>>> jigdo-lite as a background process giving it the correct syntax and data >>>> as derived from the file requesters, I'd bet that jigdo usage would >>>> multiply by 10 in a week. >>> >>> I don't recall if I pointed you at this site page before or not. I have >>> others. But it just about does not get more clear than this. Done by >>> Fedora people, for Fedora people, to download Fedora isos. >>> >>> >>> Using Jigdo to Download Re-Spin ISOs >>> http://fedorasolved.org/post-install-solutions/jigdo/ >>> >>> >>> This site gives very good, clear instructions. They were for me. And, as >>> an experiment, I just did this again while running Windows XP Pro. That >>> was interesting because there are next to no instructions for that way. >>> And none of the Linux instructions 'work' in the Windows jigdo. They are >>> all actually writen for Debian isos and had to be edited. >>> >>> And yes I have done this before now. Several times. Just for giggles and >>> grins. I have also, somewhere, the necessary rsync CLI that will let you >>> 'change' a rc1 beta to a rc2 beta iso by just 'diffing' the changed >>> parts of the contents between the two. >>> -- >> >> And that, David, TBT, makes a heck of a lot more sense. That should be >> published, but I suspect a carefull reading of the rsync docs would soon >> re-invent that particular wheel. > >This got to bugging me. Many boxes of junk searches looking in notebooks >later: > > >Here is the information that I used. It is dated and I did have to >'edit' it to fit what I was doing, from where, and where I was doing it. >It was quite fast even on the 56k modem I was using at the time. > >The *exact* line that I used for this experiment was this: (all on one >line - note the 'space' between .iso and .) > >rsync -auvH >mirrors.usc.edu::mandrakelinux/official/iso/2007.0/DVD/mandriva-free-2007-DV >D.iso . ISTR I did something along those lines, but between machines on my own network, sucking it from my firewall box so the latest (ran it from a crontab entry) run was done at about or a bit ahead of firing off amanda for its nightly run. AIR, I couldn't get amanda to jump the network at the time & this worked well. Amanda was then backing up the local image 20 minutes later. But I don't recall using the -H option. If this is a shortcut for the "host:" option, my manpage does not so list it. My copy is dated Nov 6, 2006. >The information came from here: > >Using rsync to Update Mandrake-Linux ISO Images >http://cybercfo.gkmweb.com/rsync-mandrakeiso.html > >Sometimes we have more time than brains. ;-) > Chuckle, that we do David. And its even worse when you are retired & have more time. :) -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) River: (near a woman in labor) "Who do you think is in there?" --Episode #13, "Heart of Gold"
