On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 23:02 +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > > So, I put this in /etc/pbuilderrc: APTCACHE="/var/cache/apt/archives/" > > And ran pbuilder create, which then proceeded to download apt/bash/... > > > > I imagine it might be possible to hardlink the chroot cache to the host > > apt cache, but I'm not exactly sure if this would work or is the > > recommended way to do things. > > pbuilder create problem is the deficiency of debootstrap. > pbuilder itself will use APTCACHE after debootstrap.
The manpage for debootstrap seems to indicate that the MIRROR parameter can be a file:/// url. It gives the following example: file:///PATH_TO_LOCAL_MIRROR/debian I presume this needs Packages.gz/etc, would it be feasible to generate this using the contents of /var/cache/apt/archives and the apt/dpkg Packages files? -- bye, pabs
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