Re: Bug#93612: Support for new archive structure
On Sun, 15 Apr 2001, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> Le Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 12:18:26AM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe écrivait:
> > 1) Make the empty file dists/woody/aptignr
> > - This tells apt-cdrom that the CD is foobar'd below this directory
> > and it should just ignore it.
>
> Does this feature already exist ? If not, please consider calling it
> ".aptignr" instead.
Fine whatever.
> did you create that file so that it can also be used for other methods
> than the cdrom one ?
Yes. For http usage of a validated source.
> with secured setup ? Why isn't it the standard mode ? ie will there be an
I'm not willing to incure the extra overheard of checking for the file
list file for everybody, this is such a limited use case.
> That's not so nice. One of the big feature from apt-cdrom is that it works
> well with incomplete CD set and even several CD set from different
> sources. Relying on this would break that.
<shrug> people bitch regularly about wanting that. I belive progeny is
doing it with their CDs now.
Jason
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