Hi, Quoting Jonas Meurer (2021-02-28 12:05:58) > since release 0.77.0-1 (commit 1159497b26aabbb3380ac3475c11aff556ca1de2), > sbuild sets the apt configuration option `APT::Keep-Downloaded-Packages` to > `false`. This results in all downloaded packages (e.g. build-dependencies, > lintian and dependencies, etc.) to be thrown away immediately. > > While I agree that this should be the default behaviour, there's situations > when > instead keeping the packages would be desired: when you're on a data-limited > plan or have limited bandwidth available and you keep rebuilding a package for > debugging purposes, it can be really annoying that sbuild keeps re-downloading > all required packages on each iteration. > > For now, I just commented out the respective line that sets the option in > `/usr/share/perl5/Sbuild/ResolverBase.pm`, but a proper sbuild configuration > (and commandline) option would be really nice to have :)
in what way is the APT_KEEP_DOWNLOADED_PACKAGES configuration option (see the sbuild.conf man page) not sufficient for your use-case? Thanks! cheers, josch
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