Re: Bug#50284: a better apt configuration method
On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, Joey Hess wrote:
> Ok, how about I make that question have a low priority? This means, people
> who have indicated they are lacking in clues earlier when they set up
> debconf will not see it and the defaults of US and http.us.debian.org will be
> used.
That is better, but I'd still like to see netselect be used.
> (However, that's rather silly, since I doubt these people will ever find
> their way into the [S]etup screen of dselect anyway.)
Then why all the interest in it??
> > Well, this still has problems. If you are going to do this then use
> > apt-config to get the CD mount point and CD mounting command from the
> > configuration file and use that.
>
> Ok. So use cdrom::Mount for the mount point and something like
> "/cdrom/"::Mount and "/cdrom/"::UMount, where "cdrom" is the value of
> cdrom::Mount?
I think it is acquire::cdrom::mount and acquire::cdrom::"/cdrom/"::mount
> If someone puts a wrapper around apt-get, they should install in in
> /usr/local/bin, and their path should take care of ensuring it is used. Or
> do you mean some other kind of wrapper?
All the other tools use apt-config to locate the apt binaries, it makes
sense to continue that.
> Are you getting a "Can't open /tmp/Mirrors.masterlist" error on STDERR?
Nope
> Hm, I'd probably need to see a screenshot to understand who's going on here.
> That first screen can sometimes have text on it that says you probably
> installed with cdrom, yada yada, which does make it bigger.
That is what is happening, why is the text of this screen changing?
Jason
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