[Marketing] [IAEP] personal marketing (bottum up approach)

[Marten Vijn]

Thanks David,

I will go for bandwith then asking for rsync as requirement.
A torrend would optional.
 
Some things I would like to assure mirrors have to:
- have directory layout
- same names

Features I would also like to have
- having a "Last_version" symlink to the last version.
  (keep links valid over time)
- md5sums
- list of mirrors on the website
- or better mirror autoselection


Besides from getting bandwidth is there a way I can help to achieve
this? (I guess ssh access would be needed)

Kind regards,
Marten


On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 12:10 +0200, David Van Assche wrote:
> One thing solution we use at openSUSE to get increcremental images,
> ie... you have an older version of SOAS or sugar or whatever image,
> but you want a newer one, well solution is to use rsync, but this
> would need to be enabled by the host (ie wherever all this is being
> hosted downloaded from [bernie, caroline?]):
> 
> First check the latest image at:
> 
> (This definetly works with openSUSE where sugar is completely
> integrated, even with an icon on the desktop that takes you straight
> into sugar from the desktop. The address for either SugarSuse or
> openSUSE-edu is here:
> http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Education/images/iso/ )
> 
> The Soas images (snapshots, ie latests sugar) are here as far as I can
> tell: http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/snapshots/2/
> 
> Copy old image with exactly same name as new image available:
> 
> cp oldimage.iso exact-name-new-image-is.iso
> 
> Run rsync again to patch it:
> 
> rsync -avP rsync://mirror.leaseweb.com/opensuse/repositories/Education/images/iso/exact-name-new-image-is.iso
> .
> 
> Dot at the end with space before it is part of the command.
> 
> This will download only the bytes that have changed, which in some
> cases is just few MBs, saving few GBs of download.
> 
> Obviously p2p is another good solution to get initial images going if
> a couple of people choose to upload to linuxtracker.org or
> something...
> 
> kind Regards,
> David (Nubae) Van Assche
> 
> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Marten Vijn <info at martenvijn.nl> wrote:
> > Dear All,
> >
> > In the last 24 hours I talked to 12 persons about Sugar.
> >
> > - 6 persons have downloaded sugar and said to give feedback on Sugar
> >
> > - I have send a request for testing to i-network at dgroups.org.
> > This is one the main mailinglistings in Africa.
> >
> > My findings so far:
> > 1. Asking people to help works. I ask can you help me. Can you download
> > an iso, burn it to cd, boot it, and give you opinion an email?
> > This is very effective in shifting from "talking about" to "doing".
> >
> > 2. The download seems to be slow.
> >
> > Possible sollution, shall I ask for bandwith to mirror the iso image?
> > Can someone make familiar with an optimal solution
> > (syncing/redirecting).
> >
> > kind regards,
> > Marten
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> > --
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http://martenvijn.nl                 Marten Vijn 
http://martenvijn.nl/trac/wiki/soas  Sugar on a Stick
http://bsd.wifisoft.org/nek/         The Network Event Kit
http://har2009.org                   13th-16th August 
http://opencommunitycamp.org         26th Jul - 2nd August