On 03/25/2017 04:05 PM, David Wright wrote:
[snip] So my parting suggestion is running synaptic under strace and examining the output at the time it becomes disgruntled and wants those DVDs to be scanned (which is what the OP wants to avoid having to do). If that fails, the source of apt/apt-cdrom can be downloaded and read, which should settle the OP's waters.
The higher priority project to which I referred to in my last post has calmed down. It will likely proceed faster if I take some breaks from it.
The utility that someone had referred to a couple of years ago was indeed "find". I had not previously heard of "strace". I'm sketching out a script to use those in combination with "apt-cdrom" and "script".
I expect to review tutorials on "find" and "strace" this afternoon to decide which options for each would be useful. Tomorrow's weather will encourage indoor activities ;/