Re: bizarre dselect front end differencs...
*- On 21 Sep, Martin Waller wrote about "bizarre dselect front end differencs..."
> Hello,
>
> I have a couple of systems at home. One is an upgraded from hamm-slink box,
> and the other is installed as slink staright away.
>
> Dselect on the first (upgraded from hamm) does not include the 'multi CD'
> option on the front end - this was of no consequence until I installed slink
> on another machine and it had the multi-cd option (without it, stuff from CD
> 2 gets out in 'obsolete/local' pacakages when CD 1 is being read).
>
> I guess aomething screwed up on the upgrade, but both dselect --version and
> dpkg --version report the same version numbers on both computers.
>
> I want the multi-CD option for dselect on both compoters
>
> Help please,
>
Install the dpkg-multicd package. It is an extra package so it
wouldn't be installed during an upgrade from hamm->slink.
Package: dpkg-multicd
Priority: extra
Section: base
Installed-Size: 61
Maintainer: Martin Schulze <joey@debian.org>
Architecture: all
Version: 0.14
Replaces: dpkg-disk2
Conflicts: dpkg-disk2
Filename: dists/stable/main/binary-i386/base/dpkg-multicd_0.14.deb
Size: 19350
MD5sum: 5b8f55ca2b0d7c175099538ca3e12cd3
Description: Installation methods for multiple binary CDs
This package provides three new methods to be used within dselect in
order to access Debian binary package stored on multiple binary CD
ROMS.
--
Brian
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