1 Problem: every time you use mkchroot.sh the hundreds of megabytes of
2 packages are downloaded again.
4 Solution: set up the approx package to cache these packages.
6 1. install the approx package,
8 % sudo aptitude install approx
10 2. add the following lines to /etc/approx/approx.conf,
12 debian http://http.us.debian.org/debian
13 security http://security.debian.org/
14 backports http://backports.debian.org/debian-backports
16 3. restart approx (not required when running approx from inetd),
18 % sudo /etc/init.d/approx restart
20 4. follow README, but during the creation of the root filesystem, add
21 the --local-apt-mirror option, like this:
24 --config-type debxo-lxde \
26 "deb http://localhost:9999/debian squeeze main contrib non-free
27 deb http://localhost:9999/security squeeze/updates main contrib non-free
28 deb http://localhost:9999/backports squeeze-backports main contrib non-free" \