Michael Prokop: > * adrelanos [Tue Oct 01, 2013 at 10:44:31PM +0000]: > >> is it possible to add apt-like options to (grml-)debootstrap to get >> higher timeouts / more retries when network is slow / flaky? > >> Options comparable to "--option Acquire::http::Timeout=180" or "--option >> Acquire::Retries=3"? > > What you're searching for should be possible via > the DPKG_OPTIONS setting.
Thanks for your reply. I don't think this can work. grml-debootstrap itself (I checked /usr/sbin/grml-debootstrap) does not use any network on its own? No wget, no curl, no dpkg, no apt-get as far I can see. That's all delegated to debootstrap? I also checked /usr/sbin/debootstrap and /usr/share/debootstrap/functions. Seems like debootstrap doesn't use dpkg/apt-get either. The only point where it seems to use code to use the network seems to be in /usr/share/debootstrap/functions using wget. Also I couldn't find any documentation about the DPKG_OPTIONS variable. And as far I know, dpkg can't download packages on it's own and apt-get is unlikely to obey DPKG_OPTIONS? When grml-debootstrap doesn't use any network on its own (please confirm), maybe this question should be rephrased as feature request for debootstrap? _______________________________________________ Grml mailing list - [email protected] http://ml.grml.org/mailman/listinfo/grml join #grml on irc.freenode.org grml-devel-blog: http://blog.grml.org/
