Re: dselect (or apt) wish list

[servis@purdue.edu]

*- Ingo Hohmann wrote about "Re: dselect (or apt) wish list"
> Well, there's one little thing I'd like to add ...
> 
> I use apt 0.1.5 on Hamm, and I'd like to put all
> paths to packages into one sources.lists file.
> But the packages are on different CDs, and the
> apt method of dselect exits with an error
> if one of the paths isn't accessible.
> 
> 
> Ingo
> 
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> Ingo Hohmann, Otto-Speckter-Str.17b, D-22307 Hamburg, Germany
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> 
> 

Install the dpkg-multicd_0.10.deb in slink's base section.  I don't know
if it uses apts facilities since it is another 'access method' for
dselect.  But it handles multiple binary cd's such as is the case for
hamm.

-- 
Brian 
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