Re: new cowbuilder tool: make local package cache available
On Wed, 24 Sep 2014, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> Usage scenario here is mostly debian-ports: when building
> packages that depend on each other, you no longer have to
> wait until the first package is Installed until you can
> build the second package³. It also makes older packages,
Hrm. Just, there seems to be no hook for running before
a cowbuilder --update so an update to, say, gcc-4.9 will
not be made available, unless the resolver picks this up
during B-D installation.
bye,
//mirabilos
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