Re: Apt configurator
On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, Joey Hess wrote:
> I added support for CD's, and for an already-mounted mirror. I'd like to add
> support for automounting a nfs mirror when apt is run, but apt doesn't
> actually seem to provide hooks for that.
There isn't terribly much reason to unmount a nfs mirror, I would just
stick it in fstab and be done with it. Otherwise someone could add the
right hooks to APT, it is fairly easy.
> One thing I still need to add is non-us support. And I'm not really sure how
> I want to do this. Are there enough non-us mirrors to justify making them
> chose between them, or does it make more sense to just ask them if they want
> it and put a pre-written line in if so?
Same as main support? The mirror list has entries for non-us archives too.
> I also have a weird problem with apt-cdrom that I need help from the apt
> team to fix, I think. The problem is that once I have used apt-cdrom add,
> apt-get update always spits out errors like:
This is fixed in CVS.
Jason
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