Dave Miner wrote: > Danek Duvall wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 08:03:48PM +0700, Peter Karlsson wrote: >> >>> Doing some work with the distro constructor, and it seams to be a >>> bit wast of bandwidth to keep downloading the same packages time >>> after time, I saw one method of using pkgrecv and pkgsend, guess I >>> could go that path. The drawback would be that the package would in >>> fact become a "new" package with a new identifier after pkgsend into >>> my local repository. Any other methods that works?? >> >> We're about to set up an rsync server internally that you'll be able to >> use to retrieve content to create a local mirror. Instructions >> should be >> showing up in your mailbox shortly. >> > > In addition, the new distro constructor that's being readied for > 2008.11 includes a checkpointing feature which allows you to restart > at later points in the build; if your changes are after package > application, you can avoid the whole exercise altogether. That would be nice, most of my changes are towards the end, I'm adding some extra SW and preloading a mySQL DB. :)
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