apt-get problem

[Rajesh Fowkar <hsejar@gmx.co.uk>]

Hi,

If I add in /etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian woody main contrib non-free 

and than do apt-get update, I can install any package from the woody tree.
However /etc/apt/sources.list also contains entries for the 3 Debian 2.2 R3
CD's.

deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r3 _Potato_ - Official i386 Binary-3
(20010427)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main
deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r3 _Potato_ - Official i386 Binary-2
(20010427)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main
deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r3 _Potato_ - Official i386 Binary-1
(20010427)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main

I am on a dial-up line, which no too fast :-)
Now the problem is, say I want to install something from the 3 CD's and try
to use apt-get install , apt tries to go to the net to upgrade to the
latest version of that package. This problem can be solved by commenting
out the woody line in /etc/apt/sources.list and than running

apt-get update

But the next time I am on net and want to upgrade to some package in woody
tree, I have to again download the Packages file ( which is around 1.3MB)
by doing apt-get update.

Is there any way to avoid this ?

Thanks for any help.

Warm Regards

--
Rajesh

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