[Ltib] Idea: Binary lpp pool?

[Svein Seldal]

Hi

Has it at any point been considered to make a pool from the binary 
packages (rpm's) -- similar to the lpp but for binaries?

I notice that when I compile ltib, it usually involves building the same 
packages over and over again. (Because I have multiple ltib trees to 
test different things. Same applies to all of the users on our build 
server. Since all target the same HW, the same binary packages will be 
built many times over.)

What if there were a functionality to release a binary package (ltib -m 
binrelease) which would move the package to a lpp_bin/ of some kind. 
When ltib is asked to install a package, say hotplug, it will check if 
it is present in the lpp_bin/ copy it to your local rpm/ directory.

Of course I understand you can't do that for packages which you are 
working on or can configure individually (like kernel and busybox), but 
for a majority of packages this would probably work.


- Svein