On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 6:18 AM, Tom Gundersen <teg@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > I agree. We are currently in the final stages of testing a new iso. I'm > also advocating we drop the core instal as it is causing too many problems > in case it is outdated. what if we only built net-install images, and "core" images were simply the netinstall image + appended partition/image containing the repo snapshots (or is this how it's done already)? ... then we can simply append the repos to pacman's CacheDir list: CacheDir = /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ CacheDir = /vmm/org-archlinux-mirror-1/pool/packages/ CacheDir = /vmm/org-archlinux-mirror-1/pool/community/ this has several advantages: - pull updated packages (net available) - use cached packages only (net unavailable) - zero-copy (vs. spinning up a localhost server, etc). - properly cache incoming packages (one CacheDir is r/w) - `/vmm/*` (or whatever) is just a simple squashfs mount my local server/mirror does exactly this -- the above is a verbatim excerpt. in my setup, the cache dirs are read-only --bind mounted into numerous virtual machines. working well for ~18 months, if not longer. -- C Anthony
