On Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:44:52 +0200, Michael Gebetsroither wrote:
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
of course, need mkdir -p $MNTPOINT/var/cache/apt/archives beforehand.
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).
Yes, that does make sense.
However, I'm using grml-debootstrap to build a minimum system, thus I'm incline to install the extra approx into both host and chroot environment, just to eliminate a risk that is rather low. Furthermore, approx has a big overhead, I don't want to pull in OCaml just for it.
I will never need to run 2 parallel grml-debootstraps or use apt-get in the host system, so bind-mount is a more suitable solution for me, which does not bring in any other extra dependencies.