[Test-Announce] Announcing the release of Fedora 16.

[Gerd Hoffmann]

On 11/15/11 18:23, Andre Robatino wrote:
> Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> 
>> For developers like me which have a F16 repo for mock builds anyway it
>> is quite useful though.  A large fraction of the stuff in Packages/ is
>> on my disk already, and with a jigdo I could save quite a bit on
>> bandwidth and download time over my not-exactly-fast internet link ...
> 
> Rsync should save almost exactly the same amount of bandwidth, since due
> to the way its algorithm works it will avoid downloading unchanged
> packages and download changed packages in full, just like jigdo. In
> addition you don't have to download a jigdo template file.

Hmm?  How will rsync compose me a .iso out of a bunch of rpms?

cheers,
  Gerd