On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 11:28:03AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: >> Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: >>> shirish शिरीष wrote: >>>> Hi all, >>>> I had been trying (unsuccessfully though) to use jigdo. Here's what I >>>> have been trying/wanting to do. >>>> >>>>> From what I know Debian released Squeeze 6.0 b2 about 3-4 days (on >>>> 6th IIRC). Now I know that debian also has a weekly build which is >>>> built every week which has all the updates as well has the latest >>>> updates to the debian-installer (specifically the graphical installer) >>>> . What I want to do is keep the image current to whatever would be the >>>> weekly build. >>>> >>>> There are 4 ways in which this can be achieved. >>>> >>>> a. Do the straight download through the server using a download >>>> manager/wget whatever. >>>> b. Do a torrent download every week. >>>> >>>> Both the above ideas aren't bandwidth efficient as I would have to >>>> download say in 2 weeks something like 1.2 GB even if I'm thinking >>>> about having a CD downloaded. >>>> >>>> Also IIRC on many of these images, there is no resume available and >>>> hence would have to download from start. >>>> >>>> So two ways remain . >>>> >>>> 1. jigdo >>>> 2. rsync >>>> >>>>> From what little I know the idea behind both of these is that it will >>>> download only the diff between the files. Instead of downloading 600 >>>> MB to 4.4 GB again, one might save 60-70% in bandwidth (supposedly) >>>> using either of these ways. >>>> >>>> I tried jigdo but it didn't work for me. It was downloading files and >>>> after an hour or more of downloading files I did a CTRL+C or something >>>> like that to know if it can resume from there. It said something about >>>> merging and when I did again it started right from the beginning . I >>>> did read a mini howto online but that didn't help. There are two >>>> things which I didn't like specifically. >>>> >>>> While it is verbose, it isn't verbose as in how much (in percentage >>>> and time estimation) about how much time it will take to do the whole >>>> thing first time. >>>> >>>> One way I see out of this is to download the file first through a >>>> torrent, then put the same file using jigdo and then next week when a >>>> new jigdo file comes work through that, is my logic sound ? >>>> >>>> Also I do know that jigdo is in maintenance mode so don't see any >>>> possibility of a GUIfied version of it. >>>> >>>> rsync, have really no idea. >>>> >>> >>> Did you try http://www.debian.org/CD/mirroring/rsync-mirrors ? >>> >> >> I did. And I got this. But what's next? >> > > So if you make that 'rsync -avz ftp.de.debian.org::debian-cd/ /sda8/' he > starts downloading everything. But the problem remains: you have no idea > how long that takes, while the wget approach tells you clearly when the > process is finished... > Try using the '-P' switch for rsync.
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