[Libguestfs] [libguestfs] RFE: virt-builder new option (--offline maybe) to allow running only from cache (#21)

[Ryan Sawhill]

On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 1:00 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com>
wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 04:50:47PM -0800, Ryan Sawhill Aroha wrote:
> > I love virt-builder It's great
> >
> > However, I don't always have internet access Further, some of my
> > repos are on private networks and I'm don't always have the
> > appropriate VPN established to see them
>
> By 'repo' do you mean a virt-builder repo or a repo used for
> installing packages (eg. a yum/apt repo)?
>
>
I'm talking about virt-builder repos of course.



> IIRC, currently if a *template* exists in the cache, then it won't
> download it.  However that doesn't help if the repo is inaccessible.
>

Exactly. For situations where I *know* I'm not going to be able to reach a
repo, it would be nice to just tell virt-builder to use the
currently-cached repo-def and templates.
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