Bug#35470: apt: doesn't support installation from smbmounted cdrom

[Marc.Haber@gmx.de]

Package: apt
Version: 0.3.3
Severity: wishlist

apt-cdrom and apt-get with "apt-cdrom add"'ed CDs work fine when
the CD-ROM drive is s locally present. However, it relies on the CD
being mountable via /etc/fsab. This doesn't apply to CD-ROMs that
are mounted via smbmount from s Windows machine.

While this is clearly a shortcoming in smbmount or mount, I believe that
apt should provide a means to overcome that problem. Would it be possible
to include a configuration option for the a mount or umount call?

Acquire::cdrom::mountcall "mount -t iso9660 /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom";
Acquire::cdrom::umountcall "umount /mnt/cdrom";

could be replacedd by

Acquire::cdrom:mountcall "smbmount //windowsbox/cdrom /mnt/cdrom";

for a smbmount system.

This would cover the common case when a Debian
system is being administrated from a Windows box.

Greetings
Marc



-- System Information
Debian Release: 2.1
Kernel Version: Linux torres 2.0.36 #5 Wed Mar 17 19:04:16 CET 1999 i586 unknown

Versions of the packages apt depends on:
ii  libc6           2.0.7.19981211 GNU C Library: shared libraries
ii  libstdc++2.9    2.91.60-5      The GNU stdc++ library (egcs version)