Aptitude remembers CD-ROMs under Etch
Hello. I'm having a problem getting aptitude to
forget about a couple of CD-ROMs.
I might give the CD-ROMs to my father soon; however,
I've loop-mounted the ISO files from which the CD-ROMs
were made, so I should be able to install from those.
However, aptitude just won't forget about the original
CD-ROMs. This is my current sources.list:
------------/etc/apt/sources.list-----------------
#
#### Security Updates
deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r0 _Etch_ - Official i386 CD Binary-2 20070407-11:55]/ etch main
deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r0 _Etch_ - Official i386 CD Binary-1 20070407-11:55]/ etch contrib main
deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib
# deb-src http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib
#### Etch
deb ftp://debian.lcs.mit.edu/debian etch main contrib non-free
# deb-src ftp://debian.lcs.mit.edu/debian etch main contrib non-free
#### Sarge (Reference)
deb ftp://debian.lcs.mit.edu/debian sarge main contrib non-free
--------------------end--------------
However, when I try to install a new package, aptitude doesn't
try to get it from the ISO volume. Instead it asks me to insert
Binary-1 (or 2) into the CD-ROM drive and press Enter.
When I do an "aptitude update," this is what I see at
the top of the output:
Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r0 _Etch_ - Official i386 CD Binary-2 20070407
-11:55] etch Release.gpg
Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r0 _Etch_ - Official i386 CD Binary-1 20070407
-11:55] etch Release.gpg
Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r0 _Etch_ - Official i386 CD Binary-2 20070407
-11:55] etch Release
Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r0 _Etch_ - Official i386 CD Binary-1 20070407
-11:55] etch Release
Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r0 _Etch_ - Official i386 CD Binary-2 20070407
-11:55] etch/main Packages/DiffIndex
Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r0 _Etch_ - Official i386 CD Binary-1 20070407
-11:55] etch/contrib Packages/DiffIndex
Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r0 _Etch_ - Official i386 CD Binary-1 20070407
-11:55] etch/main Packages/DiffIndex
Evidently, aptitide and apt-cdrom are keeping some information
about those CD-ROMs somewhere on disk, but I don't know where,
and apt-cdrom doesn't have --clear-caches option. What can I do
to get aptitude and apt-cdrom to forget about the original CD
disks?
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