how to jigdo download a fedora 8 re-spin in one easy step?

[Karl Larsen]

Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Wednesday 26 December 2007, David Boles wrote:
>   
>> Gene Heskett wrote:
>>     
>>> On Wednesday 26 December 2007, Beartooth Sciurivore wrote:
>>>
>>> Beartooth: The gui is broken, as the docs we *do* have clearly say.  Use
>>> the cli, jigdo-lite version.  Its been broken since it release in 2004 or
>>> 2005, and no one to my knowledge has touched it with an eye toward fixing
>>> it.
>>>       
>> There is no working GUI for jigdo. And, IMO, one is not really needed.
>> Jigdo-lite 0.7.3 is *not* broken. I have this theory. If it ain't broke
>> - don't fix it.  ;-)
>>
>> While all of this complaining about 'it's too hard' was going on I took
>> about ten minutes to find the files and instructions for jidgo and the
>> Unity DVD iso file. It took about 1 1/2 hours for jigdo to download the
>> changes and create the new iso. I then tested it on my beta/rc
>> partition. It boots and installs with no problems.  YMMV
>>     
>
> Maybe so, but you have obviously done this several times previously, David.  
> As far as the gui is concerned, no it is not needed, but the majority of us 
> would like to have one with 2 or three file requesters to use, one for 
> getting the src listing from the url, one for finding that src list on your 
> machine once its been downloaded, and one to tell it where to put the 
> results.  With such a working gui that launched the jigdo-lite as a 
> background process giving it the correct syntax and data as derived from the 
> file requesters, I'd bet that jigdo usage would multiply by 10 in a week.
>
>   
>>> Sorry to hear that.  If the bandwidth is available, I've found it easier
>>> and easier to pull the iso's as each new release sneaks out the door.
>>>       
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>>  David
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>   
    Well so far the GUI called Jigsaw which is what you get if you yum 
-y install jigado is nice but I can't get it to work and of course there 
are no help files. And of course if I can't get anything to work I can't 
write the instructions :-)

Karl


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