If I remember rightly there is a script in the debian archive to create a customised mirror. Maybe I'm wrong though.
Regards Moss Tong wrote: > > Ah, thanks. The MIRROR_DIRECTORY is outside chroot, correct? Will it get > wiped when building the iso? > > hmm, when trying to answer the above questions using the UTSL method, I > noticed that it is not quite as what I proposed. > > - One has to build a (local) Debian mirror first before he is able to use > MIRROR_DIRECTORY and MIRROR_SOURCES. I haven't done that before. > Will I have to pull in the full Debian mirror, not just the > packages that I need? The bind mount method on the contrary, does not > require one to setup anything, and does not require storing any > unnecessary packages either. > > - Using the MIRROR_DIRECTORY and MIRROR_SOURCES, grml-live still need to > download packages into the chroot, then wipe the downloaded before > building the iso. Even the mirror is local, there are still some quite > heavy disk RW going on. With bind mount and up to date local apt archive, > disk RW will be near-zero. Quite a performance boost, isn't it? > > -- > Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) > http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ > http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/ > > _______________________________________________ > Grml mailing list - [email protected] > http://lists.mur.at/mailman/listinfo/grml > join #grml on irc.freenode.org > grml-devel-blog: http://grml.supersized.org/ > _______________________________________________ Grml mailing list - [email protected] http://lists.mur.at/mailman/listinfo/grml join #grml on irc.freenode.org grml-devel-blog: http://grml.supersized.org/
