[Fedora-livecd-list] caching repository?

Tim Wood tim.wood at datawranglers.com
Wed Jan 16 18:29:31 UTC 2008


Thanks.  That will work.  InstantMirror does look more maintainable but 
has the downside (at v0.4) that it looks a little early to use as the 
basis of real work.

Tim


Colin Walters wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 10:44 -0700, Tim Wood wrote:
>   
>> Okay, uncle. I can't find documentation on the --cache option.  I've
>> found that you are supposed to pass it a path but no write-up on what
>> is cached and for how long, etc.  What exactly does it do?
>>     
>
> Basically it's a stupid lookaside cache - if a file is already
> downloaded, it's not downloaded again.  But there is no expiry, size
> limits, etc.
>
> InstantMirror might be a more maintainable solution, but I found --cache
> to be the easiest way to ease the pain of trying to repeatedly build
> live cds in quick succession.
>
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