Live CD update (i386, amd64, powerpc)

[Steve McIntyre]

On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 09:59:52AM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
>On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 03:55:05PM +0100, Danilo Piazzalunga wrote:
>
>> Matt Zimmerman wrote:
>> > New live CDs for i386, amd64 and powerpc are available here:
>> > 
>> > http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/
>> > rsync://cdimage.ubuntu.com/cdimage/daily-live/current/
>> 
>> It's fantasic :-)
>> It would be even nicer if there were .jigdo files, like there are for
>> installation images.
>
>I'm not sure how generic jigdo is, but the live CD isn't composed of many
>smaller files, much less .deb files, so I'm not sure that this can work.
>
>We are investigating ways to make the image more rsyncable, though.

I'm assuming you're looking at using gzip --rsyncable or similar. That
_may_ help with jigdo as well, but you'd need to have the separate
parts available as files too. :-(

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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve at einval.com
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