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Re: dselect --multi cd Install from a CD-ROM set



On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 10:23:14PM -0500, Levi Waldron wrote:
> On February 14, 2003 07:08 pm, you wrote:
> > Yes, this is how I eventually managed to get packages from the set but
> > wouldn't it have been easier if the dselect's access menu had the
> > 'multi cd' option? ?Supposedly my 3.0r1 Stable CD Official set was up
> > to date.
> 
> If you have all the CDs during the installation process then it's taken care 
> of.  Otherwise, you have to add them later.  They're working on the multicd 
> option for dselect but it's just not very user-friendly yet, which is why 
> it's not a standard part of dselect yet.  

Are "they"? I was under the impression that dpkg-multicd was all but
unmaintained and that one should use apt instead.

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



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