Re: Bug#93612: Support for new archive structure
On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> Le Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 02:20:49AM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe écrivait:
> > I think the best suggestion was to have a Packages.cd which could be used
>
> Packages.cd files exists but exists only for dpkg-multicd which is a
> dselect method. And it's quite ugly since those files lists all the
> packages available on the CD and on all the previous CDs ! Each entry in
> the Packages.cd file has a X-Medium field indicating on which CD it is.
Kill that, and use a normal Packages.cd then, or name it something else,
whatever.
> By old tools, I meant standard tools, not tools dedicated to CDs. Actually
> many people use standalone Debian CD like a Debian mirror :
APT does not support that, if it does not work then too bad, I don't care.
:P
> Other people simply copy cdroms on their harddrive (Gb on ide drives
> are cheap nowadays) ...
cp Packages.cd Packages
No Problem (tm)
People who do that are more likely to copy the entire CD set to the hard
disk so they do in fact have a complete mirror, and should have normal
signed package files in the right place.
Jason
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