Re: Bug#93612: Support for new archive structure
Le Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 10:01:14AM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe écrivait:
> > 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
Apt always supported that. If I put my CD and mount it on /cdrom and
use "deb file:/cdrom/debian woody main contrib non-free" in sources.list,
it does work !
And I don't see why it should stop working because of a stupid decision
that we took.
> > Other people simply copy cdroms on their harddrive (Gb on ide drives
> > are cheap nowadays) ...
>
> cp Packages.cd Packages
Why should the normal Packages file be named differently and not the new
files that we are introducing ?
> 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.
Yes, but they won't always copy them in the same place, they copy them in
different directories and use several lines like "deb file:/tmp/CD1 .."
and so on.
I for one use several directories like that when I mount (with the
loopback) several ISO images :
# mount -o loop /debian-cd/debian-woody-1.raw /mnt/cd1
and so on ...
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