Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] [PATCH] Re: local caching

[Colin Walters]

On 8/27/07, Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote:
>  On Fri, 2007-08-24 at 18:09 -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
>  > Ok just to repost - here's the current delta to livecd-creator that I
>  > can't live without.
>  >
>  > The first part is answering "Why is my network pegged?" (though does
>  > anyone know if there's a nice way to use something like Wireshark to
>  > get this info?)
>
>  Don't know of a good way.  But like I said with the first time you
>  posted this, I'd much rather just one line per download rather than
>  multiple.  It's more inline with what yum, etc do and it also means less
>  logs to slog through. 

Ok, done.


>  > The second is defaulting to a persistent cache for downloads. 
> This is
>  > not protected against concurrent execution - should we go ahead and
>  > add a --nocache option for those people who have a local fedora
>  > mirror?
>
>  Given the fact that concurrent operations will cause problems here and
>  there's no real clean-up policy, I still think that a shared cache by
>  default isn't the best idea.  I'd be up for a cachedir that can then be
>  pointed to a shared location if you as the person running know that you
>  want to; but for the general case, I think it's a little too risky as it
>  stands[1] 

Ok.

I have patches in http://submind.verbum.org/~walters/livecd.git/
(which I rebuilt because I got confused by cherrypicking)

I also attached the patches manually.