Re: questions about sources.list and apt-cdrom
Hello Roland!
On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 11:42:41AM +0200, Roland Wegmann wrote:
> Now, the frist question is: Does apt automatically know, which plattform
> (intel, powerpc, or whatever) I use? Or is it necessary to define the
> plattform somewhere in the sources.list?
Apt, dpkg, dselect should "recognize" it automatically...
>
> I know that apt need a accurately defined structure in in the sources.list.
> So the second question is: Does apt-cdrom also use this structure on cdrom's
> to recognize debian packages on it? Or can I simply download some packages
> (for example kde), burn this files on a cd and then start apt-cdrom?
As you mentioned, you need the definite structure of a debian-archive,
as I experienced... - but I maybe wrong and there might be a backdoor...
BTW if you are interested in debian-cd look at http://cdimages.debian.org/
Cheers
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mfg
Georg Koss
mailto: g.koss@eunet.at
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