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

[Andre Robatino]

On 11/16/2011 04:23 AM, 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?

Cat all your available new RPMs together into one big file with the same
name as the new ISO, and run rsync on that to convert it into the new ISO.

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