[Fedora-livecd-list] caching repository?

[Douglas McClendon]

Tim Wood wrote:
> 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.

Yes- I assumed --cache was so obvious, that you must have wanted 
something for a wider purpose than just livecd creation.

But I think, perhaps this brings out another issue- is it time for
"man livecd-creator" to work?

-dmc

> 
> Tim
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> 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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