install from rsync tree on local partition possible?

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 11:24:40 +1100,
  David Timms <dtimms at iinet.net.au> wrote:
> Gianluca Cecchi wrote:
> >Ok, so a no go at the moment.
> >And what would be the simpler way to create an iso image starting from the
> >14Gb rsync tree?
> If you want to build a F9Beta from your pre-downloaded tree, I suggest 
> using jigdo {in fact pyjigdo}. You tell it the jigdo template location, 
> then your pre-downloaded source locations, and it uses the content to 
> build the iso {downloading the bits that aren't present locally}.
> 
> But perhaps you meant you would like to simulate what an iso image built 
> by Fedora at any possible moment would look like ?

There isn't a need to do that. It is going to be simpler to just make an
iso out of the mirrored directory. But that still requires twice the space
and takes a while to build (as it is about 12 GB).