On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 05:19:33PM -0400, Boruch Baum wrote: > 1] For a day-to-day changing alpha release it makes plenty of sense to > keep the initial download as small as possible, since so much is > expected to change as part of the development process. > > 2] OTOH, a developer wants to encourage people to test the install and > the release often, so it makes sense to have an initial iso download > packed with the stable and large software packages that aren't central > to the what the distribution is innovating. Any time a user runs a > second test, she incurs a bandwidth burden of an entire new install. > > 3] One complicated solution would be to not destroy > /var/cache/apt/archive on the target when re-installing. It could be > done by having the installer suggest to mount that folder on its own > partition, and then have the installer refer to it at the download stage.
Trusting /var/cache/apt/archive on the target would risk way too many modes of breakage, let's not go there. If you're doing frequent installs, you'd better install apt-cacher-ng (or one of its competitors) on a box on the local network, and use that whenever asked for a mirror. The apt source will then be: deb http://$YOUR_CACHE_BOX:3142/ftp.$COUNTRY.debian.org/debian/ or deb http://$YOUR_CACHE_BOX:3142/packages.devuan.org/merged This way you download any package, binary or source, at most once. -- A tit a day keeps the vet away. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
