[CentOS] CentOS 4.3 Jigdo

Sat Mar 25 02:05:29 UTC 2006
Lance Davis <lance at centos.org>

On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 02:09 +0100, Maciej Żenczykowski wrote:
> > Right - but you need to mount 4 isos in the same place - not sure even
> > mount --bind can do that ... ???
> 
> (No actually you can just run it four times, each time it'll get as much 
> as possible from the provided source.)
> 
> Further note, you can just use jigdo-lite:
> 
> $ jigdo-lite CentOS-4.3-i386-bin1of4.jigdo 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Images offered by `CentOS-4.3-i386-bin1of4.jigdo':
>    1: CentOS-4.3-i386-bin1of4.iso
> 
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> If you already have a previous version of the CD you are
> downloading, jigdo can re-use files on the old CD that are also
> present in the new image, and you do not need to download them
> again. Mount the old CD ROM and enter the path it is mounted under
> (e.g. `/mnt/cdrom').
> Alternatively, just press enter if you want to start downloading
> the remaining files.
> Files to scan:
> 
> ...etc...
> 

It doesnt find any files because they arent in os/i386/CentOS - but I
guess I could mount them like that - seems a pain though.

What we need is a script - isos are in current dir - run it and it
created the dvd - hey - just like mkdvdiso.sh :)


> and I think you can just press ^C when it finishes the CD and restart it 
> with a different one and it'll continue (or maybe it asks for CD's one 
> after the other until you give a blank answer? not sure...)
> 
> >> There's also some option to jigdo to pull straight from CD instead of from
> >> .jigdo specified sources, I think it ignores paths then... not sure.
> >>
> >
> > I thought there was - but couldnt find it.
> 
> As above.
> 
> >> (You can also sed the jigdo file)
> 
> That's why I said this was rudimentary... still not sure how to best do 
> this... one source is best for internet, but even then I'm not sure where 
> to put the double slash // seperator between PATH label (CentOS43) and the 
> internal path within the 'share'.
> 

ah - I forgot the // stuff ...

that would probably fix it 

> > so maybe we need a different jigdo file to build the dvd from 4 isos -
> > mapped as 4 separate sources ???
> 
> Don't like that idea.  I think jigdo-lite deals with this on it's own.
> 

not if you have to run it 4 times :(

Regards
Lance