[CentOS] jigdo images

Wed May 6 10:48:05 UTC 2009
Ralph Angenendt <ra+centos at br-online.de>

Marcelo M. Garcia wrote:
> Ralph Angenendt wrote:
> > Marcelo M. Garcia wrote:
>>> Or is there a jigdo project for CentOS?
>> 
>> Want to start one? Join the centos-devel mailing list and make a thought out
>> proposal on there >:)
> 
> The reason I'm asking about Jigdo is because some firewall blocks 
> torrent and some proxies (like here in the office) block file with the 
> kind of size of a DVD image. After using jigdo to download Debian 
> images, which uses wget to download small files, I got the impression 
> that was a good way to solve both problems.

As said, if you have some insight into Jigdo and want to help with
CentOS supporting that, feel free to step forward.

> I have been looking what Fedora is (or was) doing with Jigdo. It seems 
> to solve some problems and create new ones[1].

Let me look into that.

> Maybe now I understand why there is an entry in CentOS wiki on how to 
> create a DVD from the CDs[2].

That mostly is there because not all mirrors carry the DVDs. There are
more doing that now, when that page was written, there were much less
mirrors doing that, especially as Apache < 2.2.x could not deliver files
larger than 2 GB.

Cheers,

Ralph
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