On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 12:24:51PM +0200, Martin Langhoff wrote:
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Martin
Dengler<martin(a)martindengler.com> wrote:
>> It seems build engineers go to a a lot of effort to create multiple
>> ginormous downloads in .img/.usb/.iso/.bootable.gz formats when
>> they're 99% the same files laid out in different file system(s) with
>> appropriate boot, config, and partition info. Could some day a tool
>> like LiveUSB Creator download only updated files from the net
...
> It's because those engineers have been whined at about because many
Actually, a tool that's most of this smartly, it's called jigdo, and
_nobody uses it_. Even projects that do all the setup work and
document how end users can use it see little or no usage.
Reading the docs, I think that jidgo will allow the user to download
(say) a .iso and a .img (NAND) file by downloading the files that are
contained in them and then re-assembling the .iso and .img files? In
this case it's something we/anyone can implement, though I'm not sure
it's going to serve a large portion of the target audience (I imagine
they'll want only one of the options).
m