[svlug] ubuntu 7.10 - go ahead and jump the gun!

[Sameer Verma]

Kristian Erik Hermansen wrote:
> On 10/17/07, David Fox <dfox94085 at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> A nice idea, and there is something similar sounding that I've used a
>> few times on Debian, which is called jigdo-lite. The idea behind that
>>     
>
> Ubuntu offers jigdo distribution...
> http://us.releases.ubuntu.com/releases/7.04/ubuntu-7.04-server-i386.jigdo
>   
The use of jigdo in these cases is to grab bits of the iso file(s) 
efficiently from different sources. The apt-torrent approach is for 
individual packages though. The current implementation of apt-torrent is 
running off the dev's DSL connection with Debian packages. I wonder how 
much work is involved in re-purposing it to spew Ubuntu packages.
I'll have to try it out sometime...work gets in the way of everything else!

Sameer

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