On 04/04/2017 11:49 AM, anonym wrote: >> So at the moment, I'm still in this situation where build fails, and I >> retry and retry until at some point it succeeds. I didn't have much time >> to work on that yet. I'll come back to you when I workaround this issue, >> one way or another. > A simple workaround for when you have cached everything needed for the build > (i.e. after your have successfully built *once*) is to add "offline" to the > TAILS_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable. Of course, getting to the point > when you have everything cached will be painful, but at least you will be > able to rebuild as much as you like without risk of network issues.
Good idea, didn't try this option yet. I guess that it will avoid any `apt` request, however what about the Tor download that is done with `wget` ? This is not cached I think, and it's quite a long download, one that fails > Here's a crazier idea to explore: > > * run apt-cacher-ng on the host (base your configuration on > vagrant/provision/assets/acng.conf) > * add "extproxy" to TAILS_BUILD_OPTIONS > * set the http_proxy environment variable to point to the host's > apt-cacher-ng instance > * the "offline" option doesn't work with external proxies, but you can set > Offline mode in apt-cacher-ng's configuration instead > * sadly apt-cacher-ng lacks an option for retrying failed downloads, but if > you can find any other HTTP proxy that can, set that up as well and then > configure apt-cacher-ng to use it as a parent proxy itself (see the `Proxy` > option). One the same line: did you guys consider having apt-cacher in another VM ? As a beginner, I'm still at the point where I modify the VM here and there, and at some point I'm not sure anymore what I modified, and in the end destroy the VM to start again from scratch. In these situations, having another VM for apt-cacher would be a real delight. > Happy hacking! Let us know if you find out something about the last point > (parent proxy that retries). If it improves your situation without using much > resources we probably want to add it to the VM's default apt-cacher-ng setup. Yep I'll tell you as soon as something interesting happens on my side ;) Cheers. _______________________________________________ Tails-dev mailing list Tails-dev@boum.org https://mailman.boum.org/listinfo/tails-dev To unsubscribe from this list, send an empty email to tails-dev-unsubscr...@boum.org.
