Re: Et voila! (was: Re: Slink not installable from CDs)
On 16-Oct-1998, Martin Schulze <joey@finlandia.Infodrom.North.DE> wrote:
> Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > I don't much care for the notion of a single master package file on the
> > first CD.. I rather was intending APT to read the package files from each
> > CD and use that to determine what is on which CD. (This fits with the URI
>
> Please implement it. Debian can only benefit from multiple ways to
> interoperate with multiple binary cd-roms.
Please take a quick look at my proposal in the other part of this
thread. Although I agree that it doesn't matter too much if we use
an "inferior" method for this release while a better one is worked on.
The proposal allows both schemes to work -- you can have one Packages
file per CD, or multiple ones on the first CD.
> > scheme, X-Media does not) Can we perhaps have a Packages.AllCds in some
> > dir that has this header and leave the normal package files with their
> > normal meaning (.debs avail at that URI)
>
> Na, we cannot! Doing this we would mixing up free, partially free and
> non-free stuff. The user still has to be able to install a completely
> free system. If he wants to use the other parts too, that's up to him.
This is just a technical problem.
There is no reason why the X-Media field has to be in the Packages
files on the CD -- that information could be stored by the multi-cd
method when it reads in the CD info.
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