Christoph Biebl wrote: >> While not completely against it, I'm somewhat reluctant to promote this >> trick that I'd rather call a dirty hack.
On Sat, Aug 24, 2024 at 02:33:49PM -0700, Dima Kogan wrote: > In my day-to-day use of the machine I routinely use > /var/cache/apt/archives to, for instance, access the previouly-installed > packages; older versions perhaps. This cache is always there, and I > don't manage it. 99% of the time the packages I want are there. > Extending this idea to schroots doesn't seem unreasonable, even if there > are corner cases that would make it not perfectly-nice in 100% of cases. > > If I propose a patch to add this as a commented-out-by-default option in > the config, with your concerns placed in a comment, would yall accept > it? Please don't add this. Sharing the apt cache between builds leads to hard to diagnose build failures and/or even mis-builds. Running a local apt proxy is easy to do, well supported, and generally just works. Chris
