On Sun, Nov 11, 2001 at 03:40:37PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > On Sun, Nov 11, 2001 at 10:48:02PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 11, 2001 at 07:12:01AM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > > > I did submit one, albeit untested. aj said that particular patch wouldn't > > > work correctly. I'm still unconvinced that it doesn't re-download the stuff > > > even when theres a deb sitting there. > > > > So, uh, why don't you *test* it then? > > Yes, well I didn't feel technically up to it, I was having a very hard > time reading the dense shell code. But it would definitely be a good > learning experience, so I'll tackle that next. > > > deboostrap does *not* download things that're already there. Whatever > > you're seeing is probably a bug, but it's not what you think it is. > > I'll see if I can pin it down. It's a very frustrating (bug || whatever) > for a (slow || expensive || (slow && expensive) network user. fwiw in my most recent tests of debootstrap 0.15.8 i could not reproduce the problem where it ignored existing files and started over. the last time that i had tested that was a much older debootstrap, perhaps pre 0.15, everything else ive used basedebs.tgz since i don't have time to make every b-f test take 5 hours. also you should try with cvs (or 3.0.17 whenever that happens) boot-floppies built with debootstrap 0.15.8, i have fixed debootstrap and boot-floppies dialogs/info messages to make it much more clear when its verifying a pre-downloaded .deb rather then downloading a new one. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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