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and subject line allow overriding cachedir
has caused the Debian Bug report #793772,
regarding allow overriding cachedir
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Package: pepperflashplugin-nonfree
Version: 1.8.1
Severity: wishlist
# grep cachedir= /usr/sbin/update-*flashplugin-nonfree
/usr/sbin/update-flashplugin-nonfree:cachedir=/var/cache/flashplugin-nonfree
/usr/sbin/update-pepperflashplugin-nonfree:cachedir=/var/cache/pepperflashplugin-nonfree
(I'm submitting bugs for both packages.)
If the user could set an environment variable to override this,
he could make it point to a directory on a flash card,
which he could insert into each machine he wanted to update,
downloading from the net only once,
instead of many times, saving much wasted redownloaded bytes traffic
charges!
Or, please add instructions on if it is OK to replace this directory,
with a symbolic link to a directory on his flash card.
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Downloading only once can be done with a caching proxy, so entirely outside of
the [pepper]flashplugin-nonfree package, and for the entire internal network
without the need to configure [pepper]flashplugin-nonfree on each machine to
use a different caching directory. So I'm not convinced we'd have many users of
an option in [pepper]flashplugin-nonfree to use a different cache directory.
About "add instructions on if it is OK", well you're free to do just about
anything with free software, right? So sure, using a symlink to an nfs mounted
drive is also a possible approach.
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