On Feb 19, 2008 6:28 PM, Timothy Murphy <gayleard@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Arthur Pemberton wrote: > > >> This is my philosphy: > >> Jigdo is an alternative to running "yum update". > >> The latter takes 1 brain cell, and 2 hours of my computer's time. > >> Using jigdo has taken 100,000 of my brain cells so far, > >> and will probably take 15 minutes to run when I get it running. > >> Present rate of exchange: 1 brain cell = 1 hour computer time. > > > First of all, jigdo has almost nothing to do with yum, and nothing to > > do with yum update. Jigdo just makes use of the same resources (repos) > > that yum does. > > I didn't say there was a "connection". > As I understand it, they are alternative methods of getting an up-to-date > version of a Fedora distribution; > you can either get the official distribution and update it with "yum update" > or you can get a respin with jigdo. That's a really weird way to look at it. By time you jigdo, burn and install, you still need to do a yum update after wards. -- Fedora 7 : sipping some of that moonshine ( www.pembo13.com )
