T o n g wrote:
On Tue, 02 Sep 2008 23:36:30 +0200, Michael Prokop wrote:
The bind mounting /var/cache/apt/archives is a trick that I've been using for years. Never cause me any problem. Since the bind mounting apt configure files are dangerous, thus adding a bind-mount option is not necessary, I think it is pretty safe to add the following line at the end of function mount_target() in grml-debootstrap
mount --bind /var/cache/apt/archives $MNTPOINT/var/cache/apt/archives
then umount it somewhere during clean up.
Each Debian system would have such /var/cache/apt/archives directory, so I think it is pretty safe to do so. This will allows us to do grml-debootstrap over and over without downloading Debian packages more then once.
This is dangerous und not possibel as apt locks /var/cache/apt/archives/lock. Thus it would be impossibel to run 2 parallel grml-debootstraps or use apt-get in the host system.
Instead a hint to approx would be much better (maybe even automatic handling).
e.g apt-get install approx echo 'debian http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian' >>/etc/approx/approx.conf Restart approx
cu, michael