Rawhide DVD - Requesting isoinfo run on the iso

[David Timms]

Todd Denniston wrote:
> John Summerfield wrote, On 10/25/2007 04:08 AM:
>> Todd Denniston wrote:
>>> Jesse Keating wrote, On 10/24/2007 02:09 PM:
>>>> I've put up a set of rawhide DVD images.  If it had signed copies of
>>>> the packages it could be considered RC1, but since it doesn't, it
>>>> isn't.  However as many eyes on it as possible would be great.  We
>>>> don't get that many opportunities to test DVD install methods and such.
>>>>
>>>> As always, images are available from http://torrent.fedoraproject.org
> Too bad you can't tell torrent "hit this local torrent 'proxy/cache' and 
> if it has a copy get my data (including others to connect from/to) from 
> there".
> 
> Note: --tracker_proxy only connects you to an http proxy so you can make 
> the initial connection, not the download||upload connections.  there 
> exists no torrent_proxy.
> 
> Yes it is sad to only be a leach, but if we could operate our download 
> that way at all then we might be able to contribute in other ways.
I have a solution for this which is a python script with the name:
archive-teleconstructor.py
For the orginal message see:

Basically, it uses some info on the structure of an iso to insert bits 
of the iso that are already available locally {eg from an earlier test 
release, or a yum keepcache=1}. Depending on the sameness of the current 
iso to the previous downloaded material, you might save 50 - 80% of 
downloads or that 3GB iso.

The following list archive has the gory details - it is all command line 
stuff, and works with a bit torrent client that can analyze and verify 
it's own pre-downloaded parts. I have only used it with azureus.
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2007-June/msg00018.html

Would someone who already has the complete download be able to run:
iso-info -q -l -i /home/old/8/rawhide-dvd-20071024-i386.iso 
 >rawhide-dvd-20071024-i386.iso-info.txt ,
and then compress and attach that file to a reply to this email ?

The way to get the iso-info currently is for someone who already has the 
wanted iso to run iso-info on it. {its usually on 200kB - the ~ 
equivalent with jigdo is 200MB }

I would like to confirm that archive-teleconstructor.py still achieves 
the the bittorrent download saving. I was able to get F7 this way, 
downloading around 40% of the actual size. I left that torrent running 
for a month {outbound around 120GB or 40 copies of the dvd iso}. It is 
azureus's check feature that guarantees the bits are complete.

Questions, comments please email me.

DaveT.