Belenix is just a startup project, and being a live distro, its lifeline is presently dependent upon downloading ISOs with every update/ release. This is bandwidth intensive.
I would like to record my experience with "jigdo". Most of the destops/ laptops under our small setup runs on debian. With the release of "lenny" last month, I wanted to download a fresh CD-1, since doing a dist-upgrade from every previous "etch" installation would be bandwidth intensive, and time consuming considering that all boxes would have to be upgraded individually. I noticed a new advocacy on debian.org which promotes use of "jigdo", and the first lines state: "it is intended to be the main way of distributing Debian CD images in the future". I put it to test last night. I put my old "etch" CD into the CDROM drive, and fired up "jigdo-lite" (bash shell script) on my box. All the diffs between the "etch" CD and new "lenny" iso were downloaded using wget, and the iso got built on my local box. The whole process took about 3 hours on a domestic ADSL line. I did a md5 check of the final ISO and it matched 100%. I was impressed ! Visit: 1. http://atterer.net/jigdo/ 2. http://www.debian.org/CD/jigdo-cd/ It may be a savior for bandwidth starved projects like Belenix ... Just a thought for consideration. Bish
