Re: Et voila! (was: Re: Slink not installable from CDs)

[Martin Schulze <joey@finlandia.Infodrom.North.DE>]

Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Tyson Dowd wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Indeed, why don't we do that instead of complicating the CD making
> process with a new dpkg-scanpackages?

Maybe because nobody except Heiko and me have stepped forward?

Again: Please implement it.  There is room for both methods.  It
"just" has to be implemented.

Regards,

	Joey

-- 
The MS-DOS filesystem is nice for removable media.  -- H. Peter Anvin