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Re: dselect sources



On Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 02:19:28PM -0700, Bedford, Donald T. wrote:
> From where does dselect get it's [A]ccess list (cdrom, file, nfs,
> etc.)? Is there a dir or file that is read ( /etc/dpkg/dselect.cfg
> perhaps)?

It's constructed by looking through /usr/lib/dpkg/methods and
/usr/local/lib/dpkg/methods (the latter won't exist on most systems) for
files called 'names'. The other files in those directories provide the
methods' extended descriptions and implement the methods themselves.

Cheers,

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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