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

[Nils Philippsen]

On Wed, 2011-11-16 at 10:23 +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> 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?

I take it that Andrea meant to rsync the new iso over the old one (or a
copy of it).

Nils
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