Jigdo vs. BitTorrent vs. normal downloads [was: Re: portability of jigdo]

2014-10-04 Thread Andrei POPESCU
[for the archives] On Du, 31 aug 14, 18:36:42, Rusi Mody wrote: > Context: > On the tex user group, someone was asking/complaining about the difficulties > of downloading texlive. > > - One has to download one (few?) large (in GBs) dvd image > - The user was on a slow/flaky line > > In response

Re: portability of jigdo

2014-09-01 Thread songbird
Rusi Mody wrote: > On Monday, September 1, 2014 8:40:01 AM UTC+5:30, songbird wrote: >> Rusi Mody wrote: >> > Context: >> > On the tex user group, someone was asking/complaining about >> > the difficulties of downloading texlive. >> > - One has to download one (few?) large (in GBs) dvd image >> >

Re: portability of jigdo

2014-08-31 Thread Rusi Mody
On Monday, September 1, 2014 8:40:01 AM UTC+5:30, songbird wrote: > Rusi Mody wrote: > > Context: > > On the tex user group, someone was asking/complaining about > > the difficulties of downloading texlive. > > - One has to download one (few?) large (in GBs) dvd image > > - The user was on a slow/

Re: portability of jigdo

2014-08-31 Thread songbird
Rusi Mody wrote: > Context: > On the tex user group, someone was asking/complaining about > the difficulties of downloading texlive. > > - One has to download one (few?) large (in GBs) dvd image > - The user was on a slow/flaky line texlive should not be that large? > In response the texlive

Re: portability of jigdo

2014-08-31 Thread Bzzzz
On Sun, 31 Aug 2014 19:26:08 -0700 (PDT) Rusi Mody wrote: > > Nowadays, P2P is the leader of this kind of download (the > > checksum insure no tampering of the whole). > > Dunno what you mean by P2P. Bittorrent? Yep. > My understanding is that jigdo and bittorrent solve different > problems (

Re: portability of jigdo

2014-08-31 Thread Rusi Mody
On Monday, September 1, 2014 7:40:02 AM UTC+5:30, John Hasler wrote: > Contact Steve McIntyre, who appears to be the > maintainer, and ask him to package the server-side parts. Thanks. Email sent off. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscri

Re: portability of jigdo

2014-08-31 Thread Rusi Mody
On Monday, September 1, 2014 7:30:01 AM UTC+5:30, B wrote: > On Sun, 31 Aug 2014 18:36:42 -0700 (PDT) > Rusi Mody wrote: > > Looking around the docs I find that the easier part (1) is > > undocumented (or I didn't find any) > Watch your step! From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jigdo: >J

Re: portability of jigdo

2014-08-31 Thread John Hasler
Contact Steve McIntyre <93...@debian.org>, who appears to be the maintainer, and ask him to package the server-side parts. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact list

Re: portability of jigdo

2014-08-31 Thread Bzzzz
On Sun, 31 Aug 2014 18:36:42 -0700 (PDT) Rusi Mody wrote: > Looking around the docs I find that the easier part (1) is > undocumented (or I didn't find any) Watch your step! From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jigdo: Jigdo is no longer undergoing active development, but is in "maintenance

portability of jigdo

2014-08-31 Thread Rusi Mody
Context: On the tex user group, someone was asking/complaining about the difficulties of downloading texlive. - One has to download one (few?) large (in GBs) dvd image - The user was on a slow/flaky line In response the texlive folks admitted that there was a problem without a clear solution.