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1 Problem: every time you use mkchroot.sh the hundreds of megabytes of
2 packages are downloaded again.
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4 Solution: set up the approx package to cache these packages.
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6 1.  install the approx package,
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8         % sudo aptitude install approx
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10 2.  add the following lines to /etc/approx/approx.conf,
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12 debian          http://http.us.debian.org/debian
13 security        http://security.debian.org/
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15 3.  restart approx,
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17         % sudo /etc/init.d/approx restart
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19 4.  follow README, but during the creation of the root filesystem, add
20 the --local-apt-mirror option, like this:
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22         sudo ./mkchroot.sh \
23             --config-type debxo-kde \
24             --local-apt-mirror \
25 "deb http://localhost:9999/debian lenny main contrib non-free
26 deb http://localhost:9999/security lenny/updates main contrib non-free" \
27             debxo-kde.root