Re: apt question
On Sat, Jun 19, 1999 at 04:42:45PM -0600, Omniflux wrote
> I'd like apt to look at my cd's before looking at the rest of the sites in
> my sorces.list, but while I can get it to look at one cd, I can't get it to
> look at the second (Official Debian CD's) If I use symlinks to repoint the
> Packages file to Packages.cd on the second CD, it will find the packages
> locally, but when I try to install, if they are on the first disk, it can't
> find them and errors out...is there a way to get it to ask to switch cd's
> like the multicd access method does? a patch perhaps?
>
I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but as far as I can tell the
Slink version of apt doesn't deal well with multi-CD sets (like the Official
Slink CDs). I find that upgrading to apt_0.3.x is a good investment; I make
my own CDs, and include a version of apt_0.3.6 compiled for slink in the
'local' area.
With a recent version of apt, you can type
# apt-cdrom add
for each of your CDs, and apt will prompt you for the correct CD as and
when required. Very neat.
Apt is not hard to build from source on slink (well, it worked for me),
but be sure to have 'yodl' installed or you won't get many manpages.
John P.
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