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Re: Aptitude remembers CD-ROMs under Etch



On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 05:03:59 -0500, Mumia W.. wrote:
> On 06/13/2007 03:17 AM, Florian Kulzer wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 21:34:28 -0500, Mumia W wrote:
>>> I've tried that many times. Those 'Ign' messages will
>>> disappear after I've removed the CDROM references, but
>>> when I put back references to the ISO files, the 'Ign'
>>> messages reappear, and aptitude still wants to install
>>> from the CD drive.
>> Isn't that exactly what is supposed to happen? How can aptitude forget
>> about the CD-ROMs if you leave references to them in your sources.list?
>
> But it remembers them even if I remove them and change their targets.
>
> My CD-ROM drive mounts at /cdrom, but the Etch ISO images are loop-mounted 
> at /mnt/IsoEtch1 and /mnt/IsoEtch2.
>
> Even after I remove all references to CDROMs and ISOs from my sources.list, 
> and do "aptitude update", and do "apt-cdrom -m -d=/mnt/IsoEtch1", then 
> "aptitude update", aptitude still wants to install packages from /cdrom.

Did you already try to put

Acquire::cdrom::mount "/etch/IsoEtch2";
APT::CDROM::NoMount;

into apt's (or aptitude's) configuration file? I am not sure if it can
simultaneously handle two images which are mounted on two different
locations, though.

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