Package: debootstrap Version: 1.0.86 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer,
For some additional context, please also have a look at the pbuilder bug: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=432088 Given debootstrap is used in creating a debian chroot rootdir, it downloads the .debs on the fly. There are a bunch of assumptions it makes: 1. Network is available 2. Everything should be downloaded It'd be nice if we could have debootstrap accept a new switch, --cachedir. This will help a lot, especially in cases where people are making chroots in a Debian box. Because, in most common cases, the running Debian instanace may have some .debs available in its cache folder. I initially took a jibe at coming up with a patch myself. But from my initial look at the debootstrap code, I just got lost. So, in case if you can help, that'd be awesome. -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers testing-debug APT policy: (990, 'testing-debug'), (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.8.7brk0+ (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_IN.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_IN.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages debootstrap depends on: ii wget 1.18-4 Versions of packages debootstrap recommends: ii debian-archive-keyring 2014.3 ii gnupg 2.1.15-9 debootstrap suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
