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Bug 691495 - Allow local cache of "driver disk" files
Allow local cache of "driver disk" files
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 698144
Product: gnome-boxes
Classification: Applications
Component: installer
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: GNOME Boxes maintainer(s)
GNOME Boxes maintainer(s)
Depends on:
Blocks: 696727
 
 
Reported: 2013-01-10 20:05 UTC by Alexander Larsson
Modified: 2016-03-31 13:58 UTC
See Also:
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Description Alexander Larsson 2013-01-10 20:05:20 UTC 
Right now we dynamically download driver disks during installation and cache them locally. However, you might be offline or on a limited network when you want to install a box, so we should be able to pick up the driver files from a machine-local "global" directory where the sysadmin or the distro/OS can preload driver files.
Comment 1 Christophe Fergeau 2013-01-22 15:20:03 UTC 
Agreed, the old code used to be looking both in /usr/share/gnome-boxes and in ~/.cache
Comment 2 Zeeshan Ali 2013-05-08 02:33:55 UTC 
I couldn't find this bug in my search before filing bug#698144. Now there is a lot more info there then in here so I'll mark this as duplicate rather than the other way around.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 698144 ***