Re: Jigdo (was Re: too many CD ISOs)

2007-05-12 Thread Richard Atterer
Hi, sorry for the late reply... On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 01:44:05PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: There's also a couple more changes/updates that I'd like to make in/around jigdo soon-ish: * Move over to using bzip2 rather than gzip for our template files. That should be simple enough now

Re: too many CD ISOs

2007-04-27 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-04-24 23:14:15, schrieb Sven Mueller: CDs DVDs April 2008: 24 4 April 2009: 27 4 Lenny? April 2010: 31 5 April 2011: 35 6 Lenny+1? April 2012: 40 6 April 2013: 45 7 Lenny+2? April 2014: 51 8 April 2015: 57 9 Lenny+3? April 2016: 64 10

Re: too many CD ISOs

2007-04-26 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Raphael Hertzog wrote: Hi, On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Frans Pop wrote: On Tuesday 17 April 2007 19:42, Michael Loftis wrote: It's becoming prohibitively expensive for mirrors to maintain a debian mirror because of the huge amount of storage required by all of the CD/DVD images. This has been

Re: too many CD ISOs

2007-04-26 Thread Andrew Saunders
On 4/26/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jidgo only is a bad idea. The format is largely unknown outside geek-ville. Many of you may think that jidgo is cool, but bittorrent won. Get over it and stop making things awkward with a download format used almost exclusively for linux

Re: too many CD ISOs

2007-04-26 Thread Mattias Wadenstein
On Thu, 26 Apr 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jidgo only is a bad idea. The format is largely unknown outside geek-ville. Many of you may think that jidgo is cool, but bittorrent won. Get over it and stop making things awkward with a download format used almost exclusively for linux

Re: too many CD ISOs

2007-04-26 Thread Richard Atterer
On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 02:02:19PM +0200, Mattias Wadenstein wrote: Bittorrent doesn't really solve anything compared to serving ISOs over http, except for the inital rush of the most popular files. I agree (naturally;-) In contrast to bt, jigdo is designed for the case that lots of HTTP/FTP

Jigdo (was Re: too many CD ISOs)

2007-04-26 Thread Steve McIntyre
Hi Richard, On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 02:29:47PM +0200, Richard Atterer wrote: In contrast to bt, jigdo is designed for the case that lots of HTTP/FTP servers around the world already hold the data, it just needs to be puzzled together in the right way. /me promises to re-start jigdoofus soon.

Re: too many CD ISOs

2007-04-26 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Andrew Saunders wrote: On 4/26/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jidgo only is a bad idea. The format is largely unknown outside geek-ville. Many of you may think that jidgo is cool, but bittorrent won. Get over it and stop making things awkward with a download format used almost

Re: too many CD ISOs

2007-04-24 Thread Sven Mueller
Dirk Neumann wrote on 21/04/2007 09:36: On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 00:59:35 -0700 Matt Taggart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For the folks that these images are for, the ones far off the internet, I have no idea how many CD images lenny will require, let's remember: Potato required 3 CDs, Woody 7 and

Re: too many CD ISOs

2007-04-23 Thread Francois Petillon
Raphael Hertzog wrote: Reason: it's much more effective for them when users download an ISO than when they use jigdo. For example the ftp.fr.debian.org admin explained me that they were limited by the disk seek and not by the bandwith used by the users. Right and wrong. I am not the admin of

Re: too many CD ISOs

2007-04-21 Thread Dirk Neumann
On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 00:59:35 -0700 Matt Taggart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi debian-cd, With etch having 20+ CDROM sized ISOs per arch (plus businesscard, netinst, kde, and xfcd) I am beginning to be reminded of when I first started using Linux and installing required a huge stack of

Re: too many CD ISOs

2007-04-20 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-04-17 11:42:17, schrieb Michael Loftis: It's becoming prohibitively expensive for mirrors to maintain a debian mirror because of the huge amount of storage required by all of the CD/DVD images. This has been brought up before by mirror maintainers. IMH(umble)O Jigdo should be

Re: too many CD ISOs

2007-04-20 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-04-17 00:59:35, schrieb Matt Taggart: DVD drives have been out for long enough that new drives are cheap, and you can probably find a used drive for only a few bucks (or free) if you don't want to buy new (even DVD writers are getting affordable). They are available in

Re: too many CD ISOs

2007-04-20 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Joey, Am 2007-04-18 01:02:11, schrieb Joey Hess: I've been looking around the CD vendors. Ideally, I'd like to buy: * netinst (in an actual mini-iso form factor) * businesscard (in an actual businesscard form factor) * multiarch DVD * multiarch CD I have not been able to find any

Re: too many CD ISOs

2007-04-18 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Frans Pop wrote: On Tuesday 17 April 2007 19:42, Michael Loftis wrote: It's becoming prohibitively expensive for mirrors to maintain a debian mirror because of the huge amount of storage required by all of the CD/DVD images. This has been brought up before by

Re: too many CD ISOs

2007-04-18 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070418 07:02]: IMHO we need to do something to get vendors to default to selling the CDs that are useful, and de-emphasise the great big vanity packs that are just a waste of plastic for most users. Maybe we need a debian-vendor-announce list similar to

Re: too many CD ISOs

2007-04-18 Thread Richard Atterer
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 09:02:07AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: Reason: it's much more effective for them when users download an ISO than when they use jigdo. For example the ftp.fr.debian.org admin explained me that they were limited by the disk seek and not by the bandwith used by the

Re: too many CD ISOs

2007-04-18 Thread Mattias Wadenstein
On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, Richard Atterer wrote: On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 09:02:07AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: Reason: it's much more effective for them when users download an ISO than when they use jigdo. For example the ftp.fr.debian.org admin explained me that they were limited by the disk

Re: too many CD ISOs

2007-04-18 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 03:10:52PM +0200, Mattias Wadenstein wrote: On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, Richard Atterer wrote: On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 09:02:07AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: Reason: it's much more effective for them when users download an ISO than when they use jigdo. For example the

Re: too many CD ISOs

2007-04-18 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 02:47:30PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: Hmmm. I should really finish off jigdoofus - the fuse-based filesystem that can build ISO images on the fly from jigdo files and a mirror. Then people will have the option to choose between disk space for storing the ISOs and

Re: too many CD ISOs

2007-04-18 Thread Carlos Carvalho
Matt Taggart ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 17 April 2007 00:59: So how about keeping around a fixed amount of CD images per arch and dropping the rest? It's too early to not have all the distribution in CDs. The main mirrors at least (say the national ones) must have them all. The other mirrors

Re: too many CD ISOs

2007-04-18 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 18 April 2007 22:23, Carlos Carvalho wrote: Matt Taggart ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 17 April 2007 00:59: So how about keeping around a fixed amount of CD images per arch and dropping the rest? It's too early to not have all the distribution in CDs. The main mirrors at least

Re: too many CD ISOs

2007-04-18 Thread Carlos Carvalho
Mattias Wadenstein ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 18 April 2007 15:10: Well, a jigdo-build against our debian mirror will use slightly more bandwidth and much more resources than a iso download. Of course, a jigdo download using another debian mirror would be a big win. jigdo is mostly useful

Re: too many CD ISOs

2007-04-18 Thread Carlos Carvalho
Richard Atterer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 18 April 2007 11:30: On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 09:02:07AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: Reason: it's much more effective for them when users download an ISO than when they use jigdo. For example the ftp.fr.debian.org admin explained me that they

too many CD ISOs

2007-04-17 Thread Matt Taggart
Hi debian-cd, With etch having 20+ CDROM sized ISOs per arch (plus businesscard, netinst, kde, and xfcd) I am beginning to be reminded of when I first started using Linux and installing required a huge stack of floppies :) Now most people don't require the full set of CDs to install, I think

Re: too many CD ISOs

2007-04-17 Thread Philip Charles
On Tuesday 17 April 2007 19:59, Matt Taggart wrote: * So how about keeping around a fixed amount of CD images per arch and dropping the rest? I was thinking 3-4, but it might be cool to keep the first DVD's worth of packages, so maybe that would be 7 CDs? Hmm, we have the kde/xfce

Re: too many CD ISOs

2007-04-17 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 09:52:29PM +1200, Philip Charles wrote: On Tuesday 17 April 2007 19:59, Matt Taggart wrote: * So how about keeping around a fixed amount of CD images per arch and dropping the rest? I was thinking 3-4, but it might be cool to keep the first DVD's worth of

Re: too many CD ISOs

2007-04-17 Thread Michael Loftis
--On April 17, 2007 9:52:29 PM +1200 Philip Charles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 17 April 2007 19:59, Matt Taggart wrote: * So how about keeping around a fixed amount of CD images per arch and dropping the rest? I was thinking 3-4, but it might be cool to keep the first

Re: too many CD ISOs

2007-04-17 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 17 April 2007 19:42, Michael Loftis wrote: It's becoming prohibitively expensive for mirrors to maintain a debian mirror because of the huge amount of storage required by all of the CD/DVD images. This has been brought up before by mirror maintainers. IMH(umble)O Jigdo should be

Re: too many CD ISOs

2007-04-17 Thread Joey Hess
I've been looking around the CD vendors. Ideally, I'd like to buy: * netinst (in an actual mini-iso form factor) * businesscard (in an actual businesscard form factor) * multiarch DVD * multiarch CD I have not been able to find any of these for etch. Haven't checked _all_ the US vendors yet, but