Package: live-build Version: 1:20191221 Owner: [email protected] Severity: minor
as mentioned in #952907 and #952910, the content archives files used in determining a list of firmware packages available are always downloaded afresh, deleting any existing file that had been saved to the cache. this is inefficient, even just within a single build (the same file might be processed up to four times - chroot_firmware and installer_debian-installer, and twice each in each if done for both parent and derived without the #952909 fix). then we must consider multiple runs, especially important when developing LB. it takes time to download these files. it also has implications wrt. offline building, should anyone be interested in that. consideration should be given to actually making use of cached files. patch implementing use of cached files to be submitted via salsa soon
