Hi, At Sun, 03 Jan 2010 22:25:20 +0100, Daniel Leidert wrote: > > Package: pbuilder > Version: 0.196 > Severity: wishlist > > There was recently a discussion on planet-debian about making BUILDPLACE a > tmpfs. This increases the speed a lot. But then hard-linking of the cached > Debian packages fails. An alternative might be to use the copy action > (APTCACHEHARDLINK = no). But wouldn't it be sufficient to bind-mount APTCACHE > as /var/cache/apt/archives in the chroot? > > Could there be an alternative option to APTCACHEHARDLINK: APTCACHEBINDMOUNT? > > IMO this would make it easily possible to use a tmpfs for BUILDPLACE.
True. It probably depends on how much memory you have; 2GB or more of RAM and you'll probably be able to do that reliably. On the other hand, I personally use cowbuilder, and that seems to be working pretty well for my use-case. regards, junichi -- dan...@{netfort.gr.jp,debian.org} -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org