Re: apt-get question
On Sat, 20 Mar 1999, Sarel Botha wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 20, 1999 at 03:38:07PM -0500, Will Lowe wrote:
> > > What exactly do you mean "it rolls through every single package
> > > on the dist"? If you mean what it sounds like, you only have to
> >
> > I think what he means is that when you install from CD, it rolls through
> > the CD and checks every packages against the list of selections, like:
> > Skipping deselected package: bash
> > Skipping deselected package: bang
> > Skipping deselected package: beat
> >
> > Rather than just going to the packages it wants to install.
> > I don't think that apt-get fixes this, because apt-get doesn't let you
> > install from CD. The issue is really with dselect's CD install method.
> Seeing as we're already on the subject...I've thought about a cd method for apt
> before, currently I'm just using a file: method which is a bit of a paint as I
> have to mount the cd first. Isn't such a method already planned? Such a method
> would make nearly all of the dpkg methods obsolete.
The potato apt has such a method, read the apt-cdrom man page.
Jason
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