On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 09:34:56AM +1000, Russell Dickenson <[email protected]> wrote: > I have finally decided to get something better than dial-up Internet > access. Unfortunately it's not *that* much better because it's > wireless and has a monthly download limit of 3 GB (before speed is > throttled to 64 Kb). With improved Internet access I hope to be able > to contribute with package updates where only minor changes are > required - e.g. a n application is upgraded and perhaps has one new > runtime dependency. > > What's the best way for me to be able to do with while minimising the > necessary downloads (from 'current')? I know pacman-g2.conf allows for > custom repositories, but is this also available in a chroot?
Yes, if you for example set up an ftp server on 127.0.0.1. But that's required usually only in case you add libfoo and then foo depends on libfoo, but you want to test foo before libfoo is accepted in current. > My > thoughts were that perhaps I would not have makepkg delete the > chroot's downloaded packages, but I'm not sure if this is considered > risky. That does not cause bandwidth problems, the packages are downloaded only once, then they are reused from /var/cache/pacman-g2 from the host filesystem.
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