[Test-Announce] Fedora 13 Final TC1 Available Now!

[Hedayat Vatankhah]

Well, I'm not going to insist on providing jigdo. However, the situation 
in my mind is this one: I've downloaded Fedora 13 Beta DVD iso 
previously and installed it on my system. Then, I've updated my system 
regularly (using yum presto) and I use yum's "keepcache=1" option. So, 
my Fedora Beta DVD iso + cached updated rpms would provide a 
considerable number of files available in the next DVD iso; so if jigdo 
is available I would probably be able to create the next iso without 
downloading many rpm packages.

Certainly, the efficiency in this case depend on the installation. A 
minimal installation will not have many rpms and so will not receive new 
versions of most rpms when updating.

Thanks anyway,
Hedayat

/*Andre Robatino <andre at bwh.harvard.edu>*/ wrote on 04/30/2010 2:14:32 
PM +0450:
> On 04/30/2010 04:46 AM, Hedayat Vatankhah wrote:
>    
>> Hi,
>> It would be nice if Jigdo downloads could be also provided so that
>> people with previous releases (e.g. Beta release) which have downloaded
>> (and cached) updates could easily create new installation media without
>> downloading much (which will be much less than delta isos).
>>      
> Jigdo/rsync/zsync all have roughly the same efficiency (ignoring the
> large template file which must initially be downloaded when using jigdo)
> in that they avoid downloading unchanged packages, but updated packages
> must be downloaded in full.  Deltaisos also avoid downloading unchanged
> packages, but in addition save space for updated packages by using
> deltarpms instead of full RPMs.  So a deltaiso between 2 given ISOs
> should always be more efficient (in terms of size) than any of the
> others in doing the conversion.  Of course this is assuming that a
> single deltaiso between the two ISOs is available (as opposed to having
> to use several to go from A to B, then from B to C, etc. which is much
> less efficient).  It's not feasible to produce a deltaiso between every
> pair of ISOs since the number grows quadratically.  However, most
> testers download each TC/RC, so deltaisos just between successive
> TCs/RCs are usually enough.
>
> On the other hand, using deltarpms is expensive in terms of CPU.  The
> tradeoffs between downloading deltarpms vs. full RPMs are exactly the
> same for using deltaisos vs. jigdo/rsync/zsync as they are for using
> yum-presto vs. not using it, so anyone who currently finds yum-presto of
> benefit should be better off using deltaisos vs. any of the other
> choices (even if they were available).
>
>    
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