Re: Release Time
On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, Brian White wrote:
>
> > What do you guys think of releasing 2.0 by the end of next week?
> >
> That's the 24th right?
>
> Can we get the last kinks out of the install disks by then?
There's still a problem with the multi-cd images and dselect's cdrom
method; this is what happened to me:
- put the main cd in the cdrom drive and started dselect.
- choose the cdrom method
- configure it (setup the file locations on the cdrom)
- specify archive root; default is fine
- specify main dir; default is fine
- specify contrib dir; now there's a problem:
The default is not accepted because dselect can't find the Packages file.
That's right because it is on a different cd. So I have to fill in "none"
to get any further at all, but that means that I will have to reconfigure
dselect for each different cd image. IMHO rerunning update and install is
an acceptable kludge for now, but having to reconfigure the cdrom method
for every new cd is not.
Instead, dselect should suggest a sane default (IIRC it already does)
and accept the user input even when it cannot find a Packages file at
configuration time. This could be implemented fairly easily with some
patches to /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/disk/setup.
Cheers,
Joost
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