Hello,
On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 4:52 PM, Daniel Baumann <[email protected]> wrote:
> Cody A.W. Somerville wrote:
> > This patch updates functions/packages.sh to respect APT_OPTIONS and
> > APTITUDE_OPTIONS which are set in common configuration file.
>
> what's the use case for this?
>
> {Install,Remove}_package() are only to be called for packages that are
> needed during binary stage.
One particular use case is "-o Acquire::http::No-Cache=True" to get around
issues with squid proxies. It would also be desirable to be able to set
"--force-yes" here if some of the packages needed during the binary stage
come from an unauthenticated source.
>
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