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

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