Re: apt-cdrom in 0.3.0
On Dec 29, Jason Gunthorpe decided to present us with:
>
> On Wed, 30 Dec 1998, Lalo Martins wrote:
>
> > I've been trying apt-cdrom. Just one comment till now... "-a"
> > uses stat, and stat is in its own package (optional even!). So
> > apt should at least "Suggests: stat" shouldn't it?
>
> Erm, stat as in the system call not the program :>
Hmm. By "No such file or directory" I assumed it was the
program. :-)
> Now this is just odd. try ls -l /cdrom/debian/netscape ? It probably
> should not give those sorts of errors, could your perhaps strace it and
> mime me the compressed output?
Indeed "No such file or directory" doesn't make a lot of sense.
> > Otherwise, seems great... I finally have apt working in my
> > machine except for this CD :-) (I need -a for it because I
> > didn't remember to generate "Packages" files for it b4 burning)
>
> -a doesn't magically create package files, it just searches a little bit
> harder for ones that might exist. You still need to have them.
Hmm too bad :-( I can't create package files for an
already-existing CD...
[]s,
|alo
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