Jigdo for warty?

[Mark Shuttleworth]

I briefly discussed this with Steve McIntyre, am happy for this work to 
be done on a contract basis so folks can just do something like:

 "jigit hoary" or
 "jigit warty"

...and get a CD with the latest packages.

Steve?

Colin Watson wrote:

>On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 12:34:39PM +1000, Cef wrote:
>  
>
>>Since not everything changes between test releases, is it possible to get 
>>jigdo files so we can build our own CD images? This makes a bit more sense 
>>for those of us that have local repositories of files or an apt-proxy, so 
>>that we don't download things multiple times.
>>    
>>
>
>I do agree that we should do this, but I'm not entirely sure how to set
>up the fallback mirror in a suitable way. The outside world doesn't have
>direct access to the machine I use for CD building, so I'd need support
>in our archive to get a hardlink tree produced at the point when the
>image was generated. It seemed like a three-banana problem when I last
>thought about it, although I'm happy to be corrected. :-)
>
>For now, rsync seems to work reasonably well, especially if you use the
>dailies.
>
>Cheers,
>
>  
>

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