Libguestfs - Dec 2012 - febootstrap and download packages

Something that i would like to have, is the ability to keep the
download packages in a temp directory when using febootstrap.

I understand that using ferora/archlinux (distros with a lot of
package updates every day) can increase the size of this temp
directory rapidly and at some point will have a lot of deprecate
packages.

But the daily use of febootstrap (or building libguestfs) makes your
network suffer for downloading the same packages again and again. For
build libguestfs on archlinux is an amount of 140Mb.

On my machine i've found two solutions:
a. creating a custom local repo and move it to the top of my
pacman.conf, so it would access this local repo without the need of
internet
b. hacking a febootstrap_pacman.ml to use /tmp/cachedir (or a dir on my home).

Do you believe that a parameter like "--save-temp" eg.
"--save-pkgs"
could matter ?

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On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 02:57:33PM +0200, Evaggelos Balaskas
wrote:
> Something that i would like to have, is the ability to keep the
> download packages in a temp directory when using febootstrap.
I use squid:

http://libguestfs.org/guestfs-faq.1.html#how-can-i-speed-up-libguestfs-builds-

Make sure you configure it as outlined in the link, because the
default squid configuration is not suitable.
> On my machine i've found two solutions:
> a. creating a custom local repo and move it to the top of my
> pacman.conf, so it would access this local repo without the need of
> internet
This would also work, but there's no way (yet) to pass a local repo to
the pacman plugin.  Unlike the yum plugin, where there is such a
feature.

Rich.

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