Just a small correction, in case anyone takes an interest in responding to this at any point.
Under the 'offline building' heading I said that the indice caching behaviour resulting from the --cache-indices parameter was puzzling, that I didn't understand how it helped offline building. I overlooked and forgot something I already knew - that without the caching, it deletes the eisting indices and runs an update to recreate them, which presumably fails without a network connection. The caching avoids this. That said, I still stand by the same conclusions and it's still a little-used, long-time broken capability that should probably be ditched. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
