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@@ -54,7 +54,31 @@ release was made. Usage: - olpc-os-builder <path to build config> [path to build config...] + olpc-os-builder [options] <path to build config> [path to build config...] + + +Offline use: + +olpc-os-builder naturally involves a fair amount of downloading in its work. +These downloads are cached, meaning that while the first run will do a lot +of downloading, subsequent runs will reuse the locally cached content. + +However, those subsequent runs will still go online in order to check that +cached content is up-to-date. This can be time consuming, especially +on slow connections. + +If you want olpc-os-builder to trust its local caches, and not even go +online to check that they are current, you can provide the --cache-only +command-line option. + +For obvious reasons, cache-only mode requires you to have previously run +the same build configuration in "normal" mode beforehand (i.e. without +--cache-only specified), so that caches are populated. + +Be aware that less cache validation is performed during --cache-only runs. +This means that corrupt caches or truncated files could be treated as good +in cache-only mode, whereas such problems are generally detected and +corrected when connectivity is used. Configuration: |