Re: Bug#93612: Support for new archive structure
On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> > 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 !
It works because you got lucky, you had a CD that was fortunately
constructed properly. It is not supported, and if it does not work, I
totally don't care.
> Why should the normal Packages file be named differently and not the new
> files that we are introducing ?
Because the release file says Packages, not Packages.cd - why should we
make the release file inconsistant?
If you point apt at a CD with a valid release file and a mangled package
file it won't work! It will look at it, tell you it's hacked and then
you'll have to muck around to get it to stop doing that.
> 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 ...
cd /.../jnk
ln -s /mnt/cd* .
apt-ftparchive packages . > Packages
deb file:/.../jnk ./
Or if you ask particularly nice I might extend the sources.list syntax so
you can tell it to read Packages.cd directly
Jason
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