Bug#893397: adapt the cron scripts to use http:// instead of ftp://
On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 11:50 PM, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> One negative point of above approach is that it always downloads doc deb
> packages even if there are no changes.
This will prevent downloading the same package twice:
chdist apt old install --download-only emacsen-common
> Also unpacking code is still complicated to make it future proof.
Hmm, do you have any more details? Is dpkg -x not enough?
> Then I thought it may be good idea to create very small Debian unstable
> chroot. Then install pertinent doc packages. For old deb from
> snapshot, we can wget and dpkg -i. Then this chroot can be updated and
> dist-upgraded. This causes to download all base package updates but
> skips repeated download of doc packages. Hmmm... which is worse?
A chroot needs root so probably isn't going to work here.
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