Re: apt-cdrom and loopback .iso files

[Glyn <glyn.kennington@hertford.oxford.ac.uk>]

Chris Kenrick wrote:
> I guess the really kludgy workaround is to reburn the CD's 
> yourself.  You can probably get away with just a subset of them
> (apparently the most common stuff fits on three cds, not sure which
> three though :) )

I was hoping not to have to resort to that.  Though I suppose that
reburning disc 1 would allow me to include the recent security update in
openssl :)

I've had a further think about automating apt-get.  I'd have to do:

1) As normal up to apt saying `please insert CD'.
2) Insert CD
3) Run following script

  #!/bin/bash
  mount /cdrom
  # /cdrom is already taken care of by fstab

  ISOFILE=`ls /cdrom/*.iso`
  # I should put in a check that there is exactly one .iso file

  ln -fs /cdrom/$ISOFILE /dev/woodyiso

4) Hit enter to continue apt-get process.  With suitable entries in
/etc/fstab to mount /dev/woodyiso as a loopback device, and a change in
apt's config file to use /dev/woodyiso as the default CD device, this
would then work.

So the only improvement I need is to have the script run automatically
when I press Enter to indicate that the CD is in the drive.  Is there a
nice way of doing this, or will I have to hack it into the apt-get
source?

Glyn

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