From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Sep 21 9:16:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from smtpproxy1.mitre.org (smtpproxy1.mitre.org [129.83.20.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6824637B41C; Fri, 21 Sep 2001 09:16:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from avsrv1.mitre.org (avsrv1.mitre.org [129.83.20.58]) by smtpproxy1.mitre.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f8LGFwE19782; Fri, 21 Sep 2001 12:15:59 -0400 (EDT) Received: from MAILHUB2 (mailhub2.mitre.org [129.83.221.18]) by smtpsrv1.mitre.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f8LGFkf21745; Fri, 21 Sep 2001 12:15:46 -0400 (EDT) Received: from dhcp-105-164.mitre.org (128.29.105.164) by mailhub2.mitre.org with SMTP id 7799564; Fri, 21 Sep 2001 12:15:45 -0400 Message-ID: <3BAB67B1.99D6DC27@mitre.org> Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 12:15:45 -0400 From: Jason Andresen Organization: The MITRE Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en]C-20000818M (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Olafur Osvaldsson Cc: Alfred Perlstein , "Bruce A. Mah" , Jordan Hubbard , kris@obsecurity.org, andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: No tools on 4.4-RELEASE ISO? References: <3BA9EEED.B7F0A194@mitre.org> <20010920223730.A82191@xor.obsecurity.org> <20010920234553S.jkh@freebsd.org> <200109211448.f8LEmfd54113@c527597-a.cstvl1.sfba.home.com> <20010921095056.M61456@elvis.mu.org> <200109211518.f8LFITg54534@c527597-a.cstvl1.sfba.home.com> <20010921103916.A97903@elvis.mu.org> <20010921154456.C29490@isnic.is> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Olafur Osvaldsson wrote: > > On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > > Wouldn't it be trivial to just mount the ISO, tar copy it, add the > > files then rerun mkisofs? > > > > This would result in all mirrors re-downloading the image wich is not such a > big deal except now there are a minimum of 5 users downloading the image at > any given time wich locks the file so it won't get updated unless the admin > disconnects the users and then the user can't resume the download and can't > start again untill the mirror site has finished downloading the image from the > master wich in some cases takes hours. > > This will probably result in a lot more annoyed users than the first problem. Why not burn the new ISO as 4.4-install_with_tools.iso and distribute that? You could then distribute a little readme with the new ISO explaning what it is and why you should get it. Heck, a lot of the mirrors don't even have the original ISO yet, you can probably fix this before they mirror the first ISO. -- \ |_ _|__ __|_ \ __| Jason Andresen jandrese@mitre.org |\/ | | | / _| Network and Distributed Systems Engineer _| _|___| _| _|_\___| Office: 703-883-7755 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message