Pavel Heimlich wrote: > Hi, > when creating a custom osol image, distro_const spends a lot of time > downloading the packages from the repository. > Since I already have most of them on my harddrive from installation, I was > thinking I could parse the output of 'pkg contents -m' for the file path and > hash, symlink the local files to the /var/pkg/download directory structure > and thus save a lot of bandwidth and time. > Before I give it a try - have I overlooked something that would make this > impossible? > > best regards > > hajma > Hi Hajma,
Shawn already pointed out why you can't do what you proposed. If you have a fixed list of packages in your custom osol image, and you are debugging the finalizer scripts, the checkpointing feature in distro_const can save you a lot of development time. Hope this helps. --Karen
