jigdo distribution

[Doncho N. Gunchev]

On 2004-11-10 (Wednesday) 14:59, Charles R. Anderson wrote:
> After a development cycle, most mirrors will have rawhide with
> packages very close, if not identical, to the contents of the final
> ISOs.  If a jigdo were distributed by Red Hat to the mirror sites
> beforehand, they could reassemble their own ISOs from the packages
> already on their local disk (with perhaps a few exceptions), greatly
> speeding up the process of preparing the mirror for release, with
> complete ISOs available, while reducing the load on Red Hat
> significantly.

    And all users/testers who run/have rawhide too :) +1

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