On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 08:16:01AM +1000, Russell Dickenson <[email protected]> wrote: > OK - then I misunderstood. If I understand correctly then, if I am > running 1.2 and want to build a package for current, I need to have > available in pacman-g2's package cache folder those packages which the > build requires. To minimise bandwidth usage, I could download perhaps > most/all of current's packages from a location which has no bandwidth > restrictions and copy them to my PC's pacman-g2 package cache folder. > If makepkg needed a package it would check the cache folder and > extract it from there, otherwise it would download it from a > Frugalware mirror.
Yes, that's right. For system upgrades -Sup can be used to download
packages on an other machine. In the makepkg case this is a bit harder,
but you can still have a look at the FB, you see depends=('foo' 'bar')
there, then you can chroot to /var/chroot/current, and execute "pacman
-Sp foo bar" there to get such a list.
A bit hackish, but so far we optimized this bandwidth problem only for
users, not developers.
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