#8 Use updated liveisos instead of release images
Closed: Fixed 6 years ago Opened 7 years ago by ankursinha.

Since the aim of the free media project is to service users that have insufficient internet access, it makes little sense to send them release media that requires massive updates later.

I propose that we attempt to use the updated liveisos that the community generates, and I'd like to make this a requirement of the group.

This ticket is aimed to gather feedback from the team on this.


Sounds like a good plan. i wasn't even aware that updated ISOs were generated. Are source ISOs generated alongside the live ISOs, as we do very very occasionally get a request for the sources?

@rvalkass yes they ( source ISOs) are available via the link in topic of ircs://chat.freenode.net/#fedora which is for those not irc users: http://tinyurl.com/live-respins2 ( which expands to https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/live-respins/ ) I along with 3 others make up the community team referred to above. The team is made up of Ben Williams ( fas:jbwillia irc:kk4ewt|southern_gentlemen), Dan Mossor (fas:dmossor irc: danofsatx), nick bebout (fas & irc: nb) and myself Corey Sheldon (fas & irc: linuxmodder)

Well, I have been doing this behind the scenes but not like explained here. Bandwidth is an issue where I stay. Instead, I cache my updates and build latest repositories with them. I then send both release and updates.

@twohot, how much of an issue is bandwidth ? would torrent download be more useful? We offer those for all respins.

I Agree ankursinha
It not make sense send outdated cds for people with bad internet access.

@twohot, how much of an issue is bandwidth ? would torrent download be more useful? We offer those for all respins.

We use mobile bandwidths here mostly. All bills are on the user ... pay-as-you-use. So, even torrents don't seem to save us. Somehow, the data gets counted off. One member of the fedora-media used to send me USB or DVDs of the release images, then I burn them for local distribution. Sometimes, I build from rawhide prior to release and cache updates for accompanying media. When I can afford live media downloads, I go that path too. It all depends on what makes financial sense at any given point in time.

@twohot, Is there a local internet cafe or University that might be willing to spare some bandwidth or allow you as a student or community member to use their connection for a say bi-monthly pull of our updates and respin media? Or to act as a local mirror hoster? Several of the US Ambassadors are also on / have helped get their Unis to maintain fedora media mirrors in some capacity I'm sure at least a few of us would be willing AND ABLE to help in such an effort.

@twohot, Is there a local internet cafe or University that might be willing to spare some bandwidth or allow you as a student or community member to use their connection for a say bi-monthly pull of our updates and respin media? Or to act as a local mirror hoster?

I would have to ask our ICT director. In the meantime, they're only just starting to consider Linux so the response may be positive.

Closing as this has effectively been pushed to local ambassadors for last 3 CY quarters and we are getting solid traction in the respins SIG, and this is also being worked into a newly forked repo of Fedorator ( which can work on a touchscreen-enabled laptop (tested on 2 Lenovo laptops and several touchscreen Dells.) --- Fork: git clone ssh+git://github.com:linux-modder/fedorator.git

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- Issue close_status updated to: Fixed

6 years ago

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