Re: slink_cd v 1.04 now available
On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
>A bug with multi_cd:
>
>I deliberately tried to install packages which were on the second CD. I run
>dselect, and it tells me:
>
>Get currently installed package
>versions.......................................
>...........................................................................
>....
>..................
>Got 557 installed/pending packages
>Scanning available
>packages....................................................
>...........................................................................
>....
>.....
>You will need the following distribution medium(s):
>Debian GNU/Linux slink (2.1) 2/5 main binary section 2, contrib and non-US
>SAM19990127
>Processing Debian GNU/Linux slink...creating symlinks...
>find: ./asr-manpages_1.2-1.deb: No such file or directory
>find: ./funny-manpages_1.1-2.deb: No such file or directory
>dpkg: subprocess find returned error exit status 1
>Installation OK. Hit RETURN.
>
>See? It did not ask to swap CD (the CD 1/5 was in the drive).
Yes, I know. This is a feature of the way multi-cd works. It's not pretty,
but it has been documented. As far as I can tell there is no better way of
doing things here, dselect is a bit too restrictive...
>> OK, cool. I did think of adding it by default if people used the genlinks
>> option, but then things get very difficult in terms of keeping state -
>
>OK, I understand. May be a bit of documentation in the symlink-farm
>chapter?
OK, I will add this.
>> >Note 2 : My (completely unofficial but with a proper changelog) Debian
>> >package of mkhybrid+your patches is at:
>> >
>> >ftp://ftp.internatif.org/pub/debian/UNOFFICIAL/
>
>Do you think it would be a good idea to make a package with a different name,
>which conflicts with mkhybrid, to make slink_cd depends on it and to try to
>get the whole stuff into slink?
Possibly. Or maybe add the patch to mkhybrid for Debian, which might be
easier.
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