On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 12:06:17AM +0000, Michael Fothergill wrote: > > OK, let me deal with that. The best way to do it would be as follows. You > would buy the first set of CDs/DVDs from a vendor. So if it were for Sarge > 3.1r0, then you would use jidgo to bootstrap to new CD images for Sarge > 3.1r1, then again for Sarge3.1r2, then r3 and r4 etc. The number of new > files you would download then would be small I would imagine and most of > the work jogdo would do would be to rearrange files on the CD or DVD images > you started with from the vendor.
well that certainly makes sense. the differences between r0 - r4 should be pretty minimal. jigdo operates on a diff scheme, I take it? > > I am not finished. You could use the last edition of Sarge before Etch is > released as a stable version to bootstrap the downloading of Etch using > jigdo. Since Etch is about 5 CDs longer than Sarge this would probably be > a down load of about 6CDs worth of new stuff plus alot of rearranging of > recycled existing stuff from your Sarge CDs or DVDs to synthesise the new > Etch release isos using jigdo. well, here i think it falls apart since you're essentially going to be downloading every package to go from sarge to etch, aren't you? certainly, though, following sub-releases as above makes sense. > > I guess you could try to get the vendors to sell only the CDs with the new > information on them relative to the last release e.g. Etch relative to > Sarge. You could then use jigdo to tidy up the mess and stitch your old > CDs or DVDs to the new bridging CD and then make your new set. > > This would reduce parasitic farting around on the servers to a minimum. > > Comments appreciated. your desire to limit server load is commendable. I suspect though, that the work involved may not be worth it. As I said before, you're looking at using only a percentage of the total system anyway. By far, (and this comes with nothing to back it up, just gut instinct) the least bandwidth intensive way to install is use a net-install image and then download only those packages you need for your system and nothing more. A
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