[mirror-admin] Downloading Just ISO's

[Nick Olsen]

I agree with this. I think it would make it much more easy.
I run a mirror and the first time around I had to go hunt for the iso's

On 3/22/2010 3:52 PM, Chris Schanzle wrote:
> On this topic of iso's, I have a suggestion:  consolidate iso's to a 
> single release/XX/iso/ directory.  The benefit to the end user would 
> be less effort to find the desired ISO and easier mirroring (or 
> exclusion) of just iso's.
>
> Currently, we have numerous directories where iso's exist:
>
> $ find 12 -name \*.iso -printf "%h\n" | sort | uniq
> 12/Fedora/i386/iso
> 12/Fedora/i386/os/images
> 12/Fedora/source/iso
> 12/Fedora/x86_64/iso
> 12/Fedora/x86_64/os/images
> 12/Live/i686
> 12/Live/x86_64
>
> Each release could have an "iso" directory at the top, since all the 
> iso's (except boot.iso) already have architectures and descriptions as 
> part of their name, README's, and CHECKSUM files.
>
> I'm suggesting 12/Fedora/iso/ could contain the equivalent of:
>
> $ find 12 -name \*.iso -printf "%f\n" | sort
>
> Plus the CHECKSUM and README files, of course.
>
> Just a serving suggestion.
>
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