Re: dselect with multiple Packages lists

[Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>]

Dermot Bradley writes ("dselect with multiple Packages lists"):
> I've been using dselect under debian 0.96 for some time now. So far I've 
> only installed packages from the standard binaries section. However I'd 
> now like to install a few packages from the non-free and contrib 
> directories (I'm NFS-mounting a debian mirror). Is there any way to 
> specify ALL three directories so that dselect will use them all to build 
> up the Packages list?

Yes, development versions of dpkg (from ALPHA-TEST/...) support this.

Unfortunately recent development versions of dpkg have had a number of
bugs, soome oof them serious.  I'd recommend sticking with what you
have and simply running Access/Update/Install three times, unless
you're willing to help report bugs and to track the released dpkg
version more closely.

Ian.