From: bo0od <bo0od@riseup.net>
To: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
Cc: 47633@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#47633: Provide direct download to .iso
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2021 21:31:16 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e34ec151-b153-a2d5-2bf7-9fdbc4dcad61@riseup.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YG9Qkk9JJY+NjpkU@jasmine.lan>
> The reason is to save bandwidth.
For the user or for the website? If its for the website i dont see 200MB
(difference between .iso and .xz) is making a big deal different, And if
the complain real about that in Megabytes then there shouldnt be a
direct download to the image not .xz nor as .iso it should be only used
with torrents (or any similar protocol).
ArchLinux doing that:
https://archlinux.org/download/
But providing direct download to the image over https i dont see its
justified to say it saves bandwidth by compressing it.(unmentioned/very
minimal saving)
To save bandwidth as well by providing https is by using mirrors. (i
think there are too many out there)
But if its for the user, Then i dont see any complains from users over
downloading multiple GBs of NixOS or debian or qubes or...etc
> 1) Host the uncompressed ISO yourself and send that link to your host
> provider
So the alternative solution is harder than fixing the original problem?
When i report an issue that doesnt mean i dont know how to fix it or i
cant find alternative solutions, Its not about me but its about the user
specially new users, so i dont know how new user who paid 5 dollar for
outside host provider to test Guix or using it, to go and host .iso
image for guix.
You know whats the alternative easier solution for that user: he go and
install NixOS or X OS and hes happy with that because it saves time and
money and effort.
> 2) Ask the host provider to download and uncompress the ISO on their
> own. They should be able to do this because they will have to store the
> ISO file on their servers anyways.
Thats really too much to ask because there are more than one form of
compression and to do that for 1 or 2 users who want to use this x
distro which doesnt use the traditional way and not from the famous
distros (like debian or fedora) i can assure this is not gonna happen
(at least anytime soon).
Leo Famulari:
> On Wed, Apr 07, 2021 at 05:31:57AM +0000, bo0od wrote:
>> I see that guix compress its image here:
>>
>> https://guix.gnu.org/en/download/
>>
>> Which im not sure why (I dont see any known project doing that),
>
> The reason is to save bandwidth.
>
>> But regardless to the reason behind it this is actually give some
>> problems to users who want to use Guix on outside server, Many host
>> providers nowadays they give the opportunity to install whatever the
>> user want from distros according to his wish from outside source but
>> one thing needed for that is the URL to the .iso , And the host gonna
>> download/run/import the .iso for the user.
>
> I have two suggestions:
>
> 1) Host the uncompressed ISO yourself and send that link to your host
> provider
>
> 2) Ask the host provider to download and uncompress the ISO on their
> own. They should be able to do this because they will have to store the
> ISO file on their servers anyways.
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-09 21:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-07 5:31 bug#47633: Provide direct download to .iso bo0od
2021-04-08 18:50 ` Leo Famulari
2021-04-08 21:25 ` Julien Lepiller
2021-04-09 21:31 ` bo0od [this message]
2021-05-06 19:38 ` Maxim Cournoyer
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