RCs for Everyone (was One (more) week slip of Fedora 11 Release)

[Bill Davidsen]

Chris Adams wrote:
> Once upon a time, Michael Cronenworth <mike at cchtml.com> said:
>> Sounds like mirrors could/should take RCs then? Push them out and 
>> announce their availability when they show up (24h?)? Negates the whole 
>> bittorrent/jigdo discussion.
> 
> Feeding the bits out isn't usually the problem, it is getting the bits
> synced.  There's no way mirrors could get daily (or probably even
> weekly) builds synced in a useful time.  For 11-Preview, the size of
> just the ISOs is 36.5G; if you exclude source and Live images, it is
> still 25.3G.
> 
I think this would be a valuable improvement, though, if you could feed changes 
through some mechanism and then do the image build on the mirror server, you 
would save everyone a ton of effort and bandwidth, and the CPU time is minimal 
to do the image build.

Using a bittorrent approach can't actually be too hard to do if you wanted to do 
it, I bet most mirror sites could nfs export storage to save the bytes, so you 
just need any small system running Fedora and a few scripts to pull the images 
down and seed them. Note: I said "not too hard" rather than trivial, because 
error correction is needed. I still think a jigdo style delta+build solution is 
best, if overall bandwidth is to be saved.

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