Re: Hamm CD's

[Heiko Schlittermann <heiko@datom.de>]

On Wed, May 27, 1998 at 09:06:31AM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote:
: On Wed, 27 May 1998, Mark Mickan wrote:
: > Yes?
: > 
: Exactly! The first CD would contain all the information about packages on
: all the CDs, so dselect would know where everything was to be found AFTER
: the selection and dependency checking has been done. 

As done with my unofficial CD images and a multi-cd aware dpkg-muticd.
I'm working to create official like images .... (I announced 'em
on http://www.debian.org/2.0/2.0beta_CD and I got some success notes
so far.)

: There will still need
: to be some thought to the organization of packages on the CDs to avoid
: swapping back and forth between two or more CDs. That is, no packages on
: the first CD will depend on packages of later CDs, requiring that CD be
: read before the first one, but this can be satisfied easily with the
: package order program (or more difficultly by hand).

As far as I understand, the checking is done during dselect--Select,
then all packages from the 1st CD are unpacked/configured, then the
aprobiate packages from the 2nd CD .... pre-dependencies are checked
first and are the only reason to swap CDs more often then once.


	Heiko
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