Thanks David, I will go for bandwith then asking for rsync as requirement. A torrend would optional. Some things I would like to assure mirrors have to: - have directory layout - same names
Features I would also like to have - having a "Last_version" symlink to the last version. (keep links valid over time) - md5sums - list of mirrors on the website - or better mirror autoselection Besides from getting bandwidth is there a way I can help to achieve this? (I guess ssh access would be needed) Kind regards, Marten On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 12:10 +0200, David Van Assche wrote: > One thing solution we use at openSUSE to get increcremental images, > ie... you have an older version of SOAS or sugar or whatever image, > but you want a newer one, well solution is to use rsync, but this > would need to be enabled by the host (ie wherever all this is being > hosted downloaded from [bernie, caroline?]): > > First check the latest image at: > > (This definetly works with openSUSE where sugar is completely > integrated, even with an icon on the desktop that takes you straight > into sugar from the desktop. The address for either SugarSuse or > openSUSE-edu is here: > http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Education/images/iso/ ) > > The Soas images (snapshots, ie latests sugar) are here as far as I can > tell: http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/snapshots/2/ > > Copy old image with exactly same name as new image available: > > cp oldimage.iso exact-name-new-image-is.iso > > Run rsync again to patch it: > > rsync -avP > rsync://mirror.leaseweb.com/opensuse/repositories/Education/images/iso/exact-name-new-image-is.iso > . > > Dot at the end with space before it is part of the command. > > This will download only the bytes that have changed, which in some > cases is just few MBs, saving few GBs of download. > > Obviously p2p is another good solution to get initial images going if > a couple of people choose to upload to linuxtracker.org or > something... > > kind Regards, > David (Nubae) Van Assche > > On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Marten Vijn <i...@martenvijn.nl> wrote: > > Dear All, > > > > In the last 24 hours I talked to 12 persons about Sugar. > > > > - 6 persons have downloaded sugar and said to give feedback on Sugar > > > > - I have send a request for testing to i-netw...@dgroups.org. > > This is one the main mailinglistings in Africa. > > > > My findings so far: > > 1. Asking people to help works. I ask can you help me. Can you download > > an iso, burn it to cd, boot it, and give you opinion an email? > > This is very effective in shifting from "talking about" to "doing". > > > > 2. The download seems to be slow. > > > > Possible sollution, shall I ask for bandwith to mirror the iso image? > > Can someone make familiar with an optimal solution > > (syncing/redirecting). > > > > kind regards, > > Marten > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > http://martenvijn.nl Marten Vijn > > http://martenvijn.nl/trac/wiki/soas Sugar on a Stick > > http://bsd.wifisoft.org/nek/ The Network Event Kit > > http://har2009.org 13th-16th August > > http://opencommunitycamp.org 26th Jul - 2nd August > > > > _______________________________________________ > > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > > IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org > > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > > > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- http://martenvijn.nl Marten Vijn http://martenvijn.nl/trac/wiki/soas Sugar on a Stick http://bsd.wifisoft.org/nek/ The Network Event Kit http://har2009.org 13th-16th August http://opencommunitycamp.org 26th Jul - 2nd August _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
