Re: apt-cdrom
i want to adapt it for my "patch cd" system, where you have a complete
multi-cd set, and a bunch of new cds that contain only the debs (and
source stuff) that have changed/added since the last cd...
i think (not knowing anything at all) that each time the user receives a
cd in the post, they apt-get update it, which updates a cache file which
can remember which cd (user enters cd number) the latest file is on and
can then ask for it...
so the adaption may need to be in the cache file and i'd like to improve
the multi-cd thing (why dont you just download all the files like ftp
method does? with enhancements of course).
Paul
On Sun, 21 Nov 1999, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
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> On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, Paul Harris wrote:
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> > i hope this works, i've subscribed to the digest version of this list, so
> > i don't know if i can send stuff to you...
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> It is an open posting list.
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> > anyway, i'd like to start adapting apt-cdrom, and perhaps working on it as
> > i hear it doesn't work as well as it could... who do i talk to?
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> What is there to adapt? It should work as is so long as you don't do
> anything particularly crazy. There is problem with APT's handling of
> multi-cd installs, it likes to swap discs more than it really should, but
> that will be fixed too.
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> Jason
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