On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 12:30:47PM +0200, Jens Seidel wrote: >Hi, > >long time ago I noticed a problem in APT related to CDs and DVDs. I >tried to test this sometime but forgot about it :-( I'm not sure >whether this problem still exists in the built CD/DVDs and APT. > >I downloaded a set of CDs (1-7) of Debian together with DVD 2 (because >I lacked further empty CDs). (The system does not support most DVDs, so >that I tried to provide the most important stuff on CD.) > >I noticed that apt-cdrom was confused about CD2 and DVD2 and considered >both to be identical (same IDs!??). So it was not possible to install >from both at the same time. I always switched between both which was a >real nightmare since the package selection in the system upgrade did not >converge. > >Probably the simplest solution is to slightly change the CD/DVD build >process by using different IDs (the number useds in >/etc/apt/sources.list by apt-cdrom) for CDs and DVDs. Maybe it would >also be useful to patch APT to support multiple copies of a source. But >I doubt that it would help if two identical CDs exist which broken >packages on it (the first CD with a broken pkg1, the second with a >broken pkg2, so that pkg1 needs to be installed from the second CD), >since APT probably checks only the Packages file. Hi Jens, I've got a fix for this in my development version of debian-cd - simply using the disc type as part of the identifier. It should be going live Real Soon Now... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. steve@einval.com "Further comment on how I feel about IBM will appear once I've worked out whether they're being malicious or incompetent. Capital letters are forecast." Matthew Garrett, http://www.livejournal.com/users/mjg59/30675.html
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