Hi
Is there a jigdo image available for CentOS-5.3? Or is there a jigdo project for CentOS?
Thanks
Marcelo
Marcelo M. Garcia wrote:
Hi
Is there a jigdo image available for CentOS-5.3?
No. Several people have looked into it, but either haven't understood jigdo or lost interest in it.
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 >:)
Cheers,
Ralph - who hasn't really understood jigdo and then lost interest =:)
Ralph Angenendt wrote:
Marcelo M. Garcia wrote:
Hi
Is there a jigdo image available for CentOS-5.3?
No. Several people have looked into it, but either haven't understood jigdo or lost interest in it.
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 >:)
Cheers,
Ralph - who hasn't really understood jigdo and then lost interest =:)
Hi Raplh
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.
I have been looking what Fedora is (or was) doing with Jigdo. It seems to solve some problems and create new ones[1].
Maybe now I understand why there is an entry in CentOS wiki on how to create a DVD from the CDs[2].
Regards
mg.
[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/JigdoRelease [2] http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/CDtoDVDMedia
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
Ralph Angenendt wrote:
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.
From the os directory something like this should produce jigdo files/templates for all associated iso files.
for arch in i386 x86_64 do rsync -a --delete --delete-excluded \ --exclude 'repodata/' --exclude 'EULA' \ --exclude 'GPL' --exclude 'NOTES/' \ --exclude 'RELEASE-NOTES*' --exclude 'RPM-GPG-KEY*' \ --link-dest=../$arch/ $arch/ ${arch}.jigdo/
for iso in $(find ../isos/i386/ -name '*.iso' -size +100000) do jigdo-file make-template --force -i $iso \ -j ${iso%.iso}.jigdo -t ${iso%.iso}.template \ --label CentOS=$arch.jigdo/ \ --uri CentOS=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/$arch/ \ ${arch}.jigdo// done done
After the files/templates are created they can be moved to a different/better location as well as updating the Servers section if desired.
Hope this helps someone,
-Shad
Shad L. Lords wrote:
Ralph Angenendt wrote:
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.
From the os directory something like this should produce jigdo files/templates for all associated iso files.
Hmmmmm. Hmmmm. Hmmm. Any Jigdo-Howto-For-Dummies out there? What am I supposed to do with those files then?
After the files/templates are created they can be moved to a different/better location as well as updating the Servers section if desired.
Hope this helps someone,
Let's see :)
Cheers,
Ralph
Ralph Angenendt wrote:
Shad L. Lords wrote:
Ralph Angenendt wrote:
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.
From the os directory something like this should produce jigdo files/templates for all associated iso files.
Hmmmmm. Hmmmm. Hmmm. Any Jigdo-Howto-For-Dummies out there? What am I supposed to do with those files then?
After the files/templates are created they can be moved to a different/better location as well as updating the Servers section if desired.
Hope this helps someone,
Let's see :)
Cheers,
Ralph
Hi
I found this (almost) howto: http://syiron.wordpress.com/2008/01/13/creating-jigsaw-download-jigdo-files-...
The interesting think is that he is creating CentOS image.
Regards
mg.
Marcelo M. Garcia wrote:
I found this (almost) howto: http://syiron.wordpress.com/2008/01/13/creating-jigsaw-download-jigdo-files-...
The interesting think is that he is creating CentOS image.
Thanks. Although Jeroen advises against loop mounted ISOs, because of TRANS.TBL being in there.
But that brings me a bit further.
Ralph
Marcelo M. Garcia wrote:
I found this (almost) howto: http://syiron.wordpress.com/2008/01/13/creating-jigsaw-download-jigdo-files-...
The interesting think is that he is creating CentOS image.
And he hasn't understood the jigdo-file command :(
I'll never understand why people don't test the stuff they publish.
--uri can only be used in conjunction with --label - which he doesn't do.
Ralph
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