jigdo don't?

Gene Heskett gene.heskett at verizon.net
Wed Apr 25 04:38:18 UTC 2007


On Tuesday 24 April 2007, Kam Leo wrote:

>Hey, Gene. For a moment I thought you were just being your grouchy
>self.

I was, no use denying it.

>Having used Jigdo to download Debian distros I thought you might 
>have been a little too sensitive. However, after examining "Using
>Jigdo to Download Re-Spin ISOs",
>http://fedorasolved.org/post-install-solutions/jigdo/ , my head is
>spinning and shaking at the same time. Their implementation is an
>excellent example how not to use Jigdo. The implementation is too
>complex. Users have to do too many things to get it to work!  Anyone
>out there know if they contacted the Debian folks before setting out
>and using Jigdo?

Yeah, I read that too.  And I'm too damned old to do a semester of calculus 
101 in a 1 hour session.  Screw it, give us a torrent file, azureus Just 
Works(TM)

-- 
Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
I've no idea when Linus is going to release 2.0.24, but if he takes
too long Im going to release a 2.0.24unoff and he can sound off all
he likes.
	-- Alan Cox




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