Re: caching of .deb files?

[Ivan Shmakov <ivan@main.uusia.org>]

>>>>> mictlan tecutli <mictlan.tecutli.0@gmail.com> writes:

 >> k is that the lh_config creates the config/ directory, but when I
 >> run lh_build it creates a new chroot/ directory and caches the
 >> packages there. So do I need to point to the existing cache before
 >> running the lh_build command? Any suggestions gratefully accepted!

 > you can use apt-cache, approx or any other proxy that caches the
 > debs.

	I guess that a general purpose caching proxy, such as Squid, may
	help as well.  (And Squid is a nice thing when there's slow
	Internet connection, anyway.)

 > you can copy the debs that you already have to the cache.

	Or, the packages could be moved to some place, and then replaced
	with symlinks, like:

# yes n | mv -vi -- .../*.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/ 

# yes n | ln -is -- /var/cache/apt/archives/*.deb .../ 

	This will help saving not only the bandwidth, but the disk space
	as well.

 > and the you tell live helper to use the url of the cache to download
 > packages, instead of the default, ala:

 > lh_config -m http://localhost:9999/debian --mirror-chroot-security
 > http://localhost:9999/security

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