On Tue, 17 Mar 2009 10:47:53 +0000 David Goodenough <david.goodenough@btconnect.com> wrote: > Is there a good reason to keep /var/cache/apt/archives after a debootstrap > chroot install of Grip? Is there an option in debootstrap to tell it not to > keep it. On the system I have just built, it occupies approximately 27M of > 109M. em_multistrap has some support for doing this. The real point is that debootstrap does this by default, partially so that things can be fixed if the configuring of any packages fail during the second stage. > I maintain an apt-cacher server, so that I have local copies of everything > anyway, so keeping a copy on the embedded system does not seem sensible. > > If there is no option on debootstrap, maybe an extra step to do an apt-get > clean in the chroot would be a good idea. Of course, apt-get clean only works if the debootstrap is native - a lot of people are using Grip on different architectures to their development machine. Again, em_multistrap has a prototype for handling this situation but is very very very new. See: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=520087 Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 09:48:02 UTC Severity: wishlist Tags: confirmed, help Found in version 1.5.2 Summary: em_multistrap should migrate into a dedicated package to reduce the dependency list that is mainly for the benefit of the alternative emsandbox methods in the emdebian-rootfs package. To do this, em_multistrap needs the native build support fixed and the script can probably be renamed simply, 'multistrap'. I don't see it as suitable for inclusion into debootstrap itself (it's perl for one thing) so maybe it will stay in the emdebian-tools source package. Ideas? Help? -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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