Re: dselect CDROM method - Room for improvement?
Stig Sandbeck Mathisen:
> I think this is quite slow(goes through all packets every time), so I
> use the following instead:
>
> * mount /cdrom/
> * use the FTP method, which effectively copies the file to a directory
> on hard disk, and installs from there. Much faster, but a bit too
> complicated, perhaps.
>
> Could these maybe combine into a new method, skipping the FTP bit, and
> just make symlinks (or copy the file into a directory) and install
> from there instead. Or is it a good reason for going through the whole
> CDROM each time?
Check out the dpkg-mountable package (in unstable). It's faster than
dpkg-ftp, and has the smarts to just install the packages you want, not go
through the entire list.
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