Hi, When I run make in libguestfs directory, supermin tries to redownload all packages it needs everytime. This is a blocker for me because: 1. I have a slow network connection, redownloading all packages is just a waste of time even though they are not big. 2. My network connection is not stable(especially when visiting sites outside of China), sometimes it fails to download the packages in the middle of downloading, so I have to restart from the beginning. 3. I'm not expected to consume too much network traffic from within office. So what I want to know is: 1. is it possible to use cached packages that supermin already downloaded? How? 2. or better, whether supermin can use packages installed on local systems, instead of downloading from web? I read the man page of supermin and saw there is --if-newer and --use-installed, but I'm not sure how to use them. Any helps will be appreciated!

On Wed, Jul 09, 2014 at 10:29:44AM +0800, Hu Tao wrote: > Hi, > > When I run make in libguestfs directory, supermin tries to redownload > all packages it needs everytime. This is a blocker for me because: This shouldn't happen, and doesn't -- for me. The dependencies are carefully set up so the appliance doesn't get rebuilt each time you do make.