Bug#41231: apt: apt-cdrom should work for source CDs

[Tom Lees <tom@lpsg.demon.co.uk>]

On Tue, Jul 13, 1999 at 07:36:50PM +0100, tom@lpsg.demon.co.uk wrote:
> I have several source CDs. Now that APT can handle source code URIs,
> apt-cdrom should also be upgraded to handle source CDROMs (at least
> as generated by the slink debian-cd package).

To follow up on this, apt-get does not work with the CDROM method doing
sources at all -- even if you generate an appropriate Sources file by hand;
it does this because the CDROM method doesn't copy the files across before
it attempts to run dpkg-source. An error message like this then follows:-

lpsg:/var/state/apt/lists# apt-get source jargon
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Need to get 0B/582kB of source archives.
dpkg-source: error: cannot open .dsc file ./jargon_4.0.0-3.dsc: No such file or directory
Unpack command 'dpkg-source -x jargon_4.0.0-3.dsc' failed.
E: Child process failed

Conversely, with the everything the same but using a file:/cdrom URI, everything
works.

-- 
Tom <tom@lpsg.demon.co.uk>