Re-using live-helper cache [was: Presetting keyboard layout]
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On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 10:06:25AM +0100, Daniel Baumann wrote:
> tomas at tuxteam.de wrote:
> > I just don't know very much about lh yet to comment, but a more
> > "central" package cache/repository might make sense (especially when
> > building several variants of live images). It should be simple enough to
> > survive version changes of the lh machinery (and accomodate different
> > repositories). What do you think?
>
> if you have a clever (cheap) idea how to do it, i'm all ears.
I'm just too new to all this thing, so it might yet take some time for
me to have usable ideas. But I try hard :-)
> the problem is, that the package cache must be available in the chroot.
[...]
> so, indeed.. one could hardlink these these.. will have a look at it at
> thursday (but feel free to send a patch if you've time to kill before
> thursday).
Thanks! this is very enlightening. And yes -- bind-mount seems the way
to go.
BTW. I noticed that things got *way* faster[1] now. And I can't put all the
blame on network bandwidth.
[1] Subjective fuzz factor: may be 4.
Thanks
- -- tom?s
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