Re-using live-helper cache [was: Presetting keyboard layout]

[will.murnane at gmail.com (Will Murnane)]

On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 7:45 AM, Sebastian Holler <shgeo at online.de> wrote:
> > You may be interested in apt-cacher; install and configure it, then use
>  > lh_config --mirror-chroot http://127.0.0.1:3142/ftp.debian.org/debian/ \
>  >   --mirror-chroot-security "http://127.0.0.1:3142/security.debian.org/"; \
>  >   --foo --bar --baz
>  > The packages will download from the internet once, and henceforth use
>  > the cached versions.  When new versions come out, they'll properly be
>  > fetched once and cached.
>
>  Does this method works for source packages, too?
>  When I'm using
>    lh_config --source enabled --source-images tar
>  the source packages (more than 2GBytes!! in case of my live system) will
>  be downloaded from the external repository each time, without using an
>  internal cache automatically.
I'm not sure, honestly; I tend to use binary packages rather than
source ones.  If you add a mirror named "http://foo.com/bar/baz";,
changing this to "http://my-apt-cacher/foo.com/bar/baz"; will likely do
the trick.

Will