Bug#400829: live-package should suggest apt-cacher or similar

2007-03-21 Thread Daniel Baumann
tags 400829 +pending thanks Hi, first of all, as said in my last message in this report, I don't want to poison the suggests/recommends with a list of all these caching daemons. Unrelated to that, live-helper does cache deb packages by default now and re-uses them in a very simple way,

Bug#400829: live-package should suggest apt-cacher or similar

2006-11-29 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 18:34:22 -0500 csights [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Thanks for the nice iso auto build script! I stumbled across it while looking for a way to customize liveCDs. Sweet! Anyway, I think Suggesting apt-cacher along with some commented out configuration in

Bug#400829: live-package should suggest apt-cacher or similar

2006-11-29 Thread CSights
Anyway, the point is, how do you decide which package to suggest if several might provide the same functionality, each with its own distinct advantages and disadvantages? Perhaps all of the alternatives should provide a virtual package, e.g. Provides: apt-package-proxy? A virtual

Bug#400829: live-package should suggest apt-cacher or similar

2006-11-29 Thread Daniel Baumann
Ben Armstrong wrote: I don't see any particular reason to suggest apt-cacher over, for example, approx which appears to me to be in better health than apt-cacher, which was recently removed from testing and re-added again a few days later, which has 34 outstanding bugs against it, 4 of

Bug#400829: live-package should suggest apt-cacher or similar

2006-11-28 Thread csights
Package: live-package Version: 0.99.14-1 Severity: wishlist Hello, Thanks for the nice iso auto build script! I stumbled across it while looking for a way to customize liveCDs. Sweet! Anyway, I think Suggesting apt-cacher along with some commented out configuration in