On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 10:28:01AM -0700, Ian Burrell wrote:
On 10/5/06, Michal Jaegermann <michal(a)harddata.com> wrote:
>
>There exists this "jigdo", or "Jigsaw Download", project.
>http://www.atterer.net/jigdo/
>It allows to download "custom images".
Jigdo creates an ISO image from a description file and the contained
files. It is handy when you already have all the files.
Precisely. But "all files" for a particular variant may mean
only a subset of all available files. Also you may already have
a substantial portion of these files. Say in a development cycle
when you are testing installation and only some bits-and-pieces
were really changed.
In the world before bittorrent, it was easier to mirror a
repository of packages instead of the ISO.
Bittorrent sometimes works and sometimes is not that great
for assorted reasons.
Yes, "the real image" has to be reassembled by a receiving
end of jigdo.
Michal