-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Robert P. J. Day wrote: | On Tue, 19 Feb 2008, David Boles wrote: | |> BTW I made the 20080204 Fedora i386 CD set by using the updated |> 20080204 Fedora-Unity DVD as my package source. Jigdo downloaded |> nothing but the templates for the CDs and took all of the rpm |> packages from the DVD. That was interesting to watch. | | i guess that shouldn't surprise anyone -- the packages should be | exactly the same, with perhaps some anaconda-related stuff being | different, if at all. | |> ~From the way it reads Jigdo can also be used to make a Fedora 7 |> into a Fedora 8. | | and why not? in a nutshell (as i understand it), when you want to | create a new DVD, you have to grab the appropriate template file, | which has a detailed list of precisely what packages the process | needs. where those packages come from isn't relevant. | | as an extreme example, you can always create an F8 DVD from, say, an | F4 DVD -- it just won't save you much time since i'm guessing it will | find almost nothing that can be re-used. | |> Speaking of which, as I understand it, jigdo will be an option for |> Fedora 9 ISOs. | | ooh, excellent. i must watch for this. | | rday | | p.s. david: pedantically speaking :-), i would try to avoid using | the phrase "Jigdo can also be used to make a Fedora 7 into a Fedora | 8". technically, you're not "making" anything into anything else, | you're simply constructing a specific DVD version and picking as much | reusable content as you can from somewhere else. | | but you knew that. :-) Picky. Picky. Picky. ;-) Yes I did. But I figured that some might find that a more clear concept. I have, it has been years, used rsync to update a beta1 iso to a beta2 iso and then a 'gold' iso. The original ISO had to be renamed to the same name as the new one for this to work. But it did work. And this got me to thinking, I do that from time to time, I wonder if bittorrent would 'update' an ISO if you renamed the ISO and ran a 'new' bittorrent for the 'new' ISO? I don't use bittorrent myself because my ISP is one of those that throttles it. That and it can be incredibly slow at times. - -- ~ David -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (MingW32) iEYEARECAAYFAke7NqQACgkQAO0wNI1X4QGD7wCfUJpDy/Q+VR0qQbnZqMPCCl4R wHsAn0m8GtrOzFRJ1aTRwrvUFTReAuLa =0ERa -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
