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fetch_template
What it does
Fetch a template onto a box without installing it: it waits there, out of sight, and a later install_environment of it takes seconds instead of a download. Nothing runs and no memory is used. Names as install_environment takes them: "name", "name@r2", "org/name", or "owner/name" shared by link. Answers at once; a big template fetches in the background. Call it again to see whether it is there. (formerly fetch_package)
What it needs to know
- template
- The template, as list_templates names it: "dev-stack", "hemlane/dev-stack", "hemlane/dev-stack@r3".
- box · optional
- Which box: its name and account, "home.frank" or "jordan.northwind", or just "home" when only one of your boxes is called that. Omit it for your current box (switch_box changes it; list_boxes says which it is).
- session_box · optional
- The box this session runs on, if it runs on one of yours: its name, as the on-box instructions give it ("frankh90.hemlane"). With it, a call that names no box is checked against your current box.
Where it lands
On one of your boxes: the one named in box, or your default box when none is named.