On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 09:03:21AM +0100, Tim Lauridsen wrote: > Michael E Brown wrote: > >I was thinking about a couple enhancements to mock, and one of the > >things that came up was an 'offline' mode for mock, ie. the ability to > >build packages when disconnected from the internet. > > > >I believe that everything is now in place in mock 0.8.x to allow this. > >Mock now caches /var/cache/yum. As long as you already have downloaded > >the correct BuildRequires for your package, there is no compelling > >reason to hit the network if the user wants to do an offline build. > > > >This would require an enhancement to yum. I was thinking it could > >possibly be a plugin, but I wanted to get feedback on how to implement > >it. Basically, the idea is to just assume that the contents of > >/var/cache/yum are up-to-date and use them. If there is anything missing > >that needs to be downloaded from the internet, then it should basically > >error out. I was thinking an "--offline" cmdline parameter. > > > >Any pointers, hints, or other ideas would be most welcome. > > > >Thanks, > >Michael Brown > >_______________________________________________ > >Yum-devel mailing list > >[email protected] > >https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum-devel > > It this not what '-c' does, only use the stuff in cache. ?
Ooooh. Thanks, I had overlooked this. I'll try it out. -- Michael _______________________________________________ Yum-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum-devel
