From: Andrew Walrond <andrew@...>
Date: 2004-10-18T18:33:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Rubyx on OS News

On Wednesday 13 Oct 2004 15:30, trans.  (T. Onoma) wrote:
>
> I tired to download using ww. It took ~24 hours to download cd iso, but
> when it finished it gave:
>
>   0 remaining
>   ww.execute() caught an unexpected exception: Loader exited due to error:
>   Extracted file digest is incorrect: rubyx-82-i386-cd.iso
>

I'm afraid the iso hasn't many proxy mirrors yet, and the demand on my home 
adsl has been huge, hence long download times. The situation is better now 
(more mirrors)

What version of ww are you using? If you used a permanent cache (so you can 
resume if a problem occurs like above) then just run it again (with 
--verify-cache) and all will be well in a few moments. Use the latest version 
if you aren't already.

> So I do not have much hope that it will work. I don't know the details but
> it sure would be nice if it could go back and fix itself, (rsync?) or
> something.

I can and does; but older versions had a bug where corrupt blocks didn't get 
deleted on huge downloads, but that is fixed now. Even so, a quick rerun with 
--verify-cache sorts the problem.

>
> Have you considered trying linuxiso.org? Maybe they will mirror a copy.
>

No; perhaps I should. I haven't really been encouraging use of the ISO's; The 
preferred method is to build your own custom distro from source using just 
the rubyx script (See www.rubyx.org).

> Also, I found article on chrooting services that you might be interested
> in:
>
>   http://www.linuxfocus.org/English/January2002/article225.shtml
>
> I know Rubyx does something like this for building software, I wondered if
> it did so for running services too --might be nice.

Yea; I need some technology in the linux kernel which will make rubyx really 
elegant (no symlinks) and chrooted services efficient and elegant. Namely, 
extended union mounting, or mutiple level transparent mounts. It's a pet 
project I will do one day, unless somebody gets there first...

Andrew Walrond