2-clicks-to-LiveCD no longer blocking on mirrormanager
Mike McGrath
mmcgrath at redhat.com
Sat Oct 20 19:02:30 UTC 2007
Matt Domsch wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 10:48:49AM -0500, Matt Domsch wrote:
>
>> URLs of the form:
>>
>> http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/7/Live/i386/Fedora-7-Live-i686.iso
>>
>> now work via mirrormanager redirect magic. This is basically the full
>> path to the actual file on the master servers, but will automagically
>> redirect to a (local) mirror with that file. This can be used for any
>> file stored in the master mirror tree.
>>
>> Hopefully this will un-block the "2-clicks to a LiveCD" feature. Heck
>> - it could be 1-click on the front page of fedoraproject.org/ now. :-)
>>
>
>
> I know Ricky (IIRC) made a pass at this. Any chance such could be
> made live for Fedora 7 now, and then updated for Fedora 8 in a few
> weeks? Like Mike, I feel that the lack of a one-click download on the
> front page has cut into our download numbers significantly.
>
I'll leave this call up to ricky but what we have in the git repo right
now is very close to ready, Ricky what do you think?
-Mike
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