Package: debspawn Version: 0.5.0-1 Severity: wishlist Hi,
thanks for fixing all of the bugs I reported. I was looking into debspawn again and noticed that there is no way to opt out of caching downloaded .debs locally. One can cache the directory for caching them, but not disable it. Why would one want to do that? If your system resides on a SSD, writes reduce the lifetime of your disk. Partially, one can avoid writes incurred by debspawn by mounting a tmpfs on /var/tmp/debspawn (or moving it to a tmpfs-based /tmp). The writes to the aptcache cannot be avoided that way. My local network has a fast mirror, so downloading them over and over again is not too bad. Quite to the contrary, the cache can be shared by multiple hosts. One relatively simple way I see here is to reserve a special value for the APTCacheDir setting for disabling the cache. It seems like toml doesn't have any equivalent to None or null and the suggestion is to skip the field in such a case. Unfortunately, that case already has the semantics of using the default value. Since all valid values of APTCacheDir should start with a slash, maybe "disabled" works? Helmut
