[ale] Getting Ubuntu 7.10 (was Re: Ubuntu Georgia LoCo upcoming events)

[James P. Kinney III]

On Fri, 2007-10-19 at 01:55 -0400, Brian Pitts wrote:

> What I do is download a daily image 2 or 3 days before the release, then 
> on release day I use bittorrent to update the file with any changes. 
> Bittorrent interprets my old download as a corrupt/incomplete download 
> and fetches only the chunks that changed. It's a job more typically 
> given to rsync, but of course those servers are slammed on release day. 
> I know I should be able to do this with jigdo too, but I've never gotten 
> it to work right.

And the HowTo on this is published....?

I did not know that bittorrent could do this. With thought it makes
sense as that's sort of how the data gets moved around by bittorrent
itself.

Thanks Brian!

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