On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 11:50 PM, Osamu Aoki wrote: > One negative point of above approach is that it always downloads doc deb > packages even if there are no changes.
This will prevent downloading the same package twice: chdist apt old install --download-only emacsen-common > Also unpacking code is still complicated to make it future proof. Hmm, do you have any more details? Is dpkg -x not enough? > Then I thought it may be good idea to create very small Debian unstable > chroot. Then install pertinent doc packages. For old deb from > snapshot, we can wget and dpkg -i. Then this chroot can be updated and > dist-upgraded. This causes to download all base package updates but > skips repeated download of doc packages. Hmmm... which is worse? A chroot needs root so probably isn't going to work here. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
