[Fedora-livecd-list] [PATCH] Re: local caching

[Colin Walters]

On 8/27/07, Jeremy Katz <katzj at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2007-08-24 at 18:09 -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> > Ok just to repost - here's the current delta to livecd-creator that I
> > can't live without.
> >
> > The first part is answering "Why is my network pegged?" (though does
> > anyone know if there's a nice way to use something like Wireshark to
> > get this info?)
>
> Don't know of a good way.  But like I said with the first time you
> posted this, I'd much rather just one line per download rather than
> multiple.  It's more inline with what yum, etc do and it also means less
> logs to slog through.


Ok, done.


> > The second is defaulting to a persistent cache for downloads.  This is
> > not protected against concurrent execution - should we go ahead and
> > add a --nocache option for those people who have a local fedora
> > mirror?
>
> Given the fact that concurrent operations will cause problems here and
> there's no real clean-up policy, I still think that a shared cache by
> default isn't the best idea.  I'd be up for a cachedir that can then be
> pointed to a shared location if you as the person running know that you
> want to; but for the general case, I think it's a little too risky as it
> stands[1]


Ok.

I have patches in http://submind.verbum.org/~walters/livecd.git/
(which I rebuilt because I got confused by cherrypicking)

I also attached the patches manually.
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