Bug#76547: apt-get install fails if multiple CDs are required

[Peter Hugosson-Miller <pehu@im.se>]

Package: apt
Version: 0.3.19
OS Version: Debian 2.2r0 Official (`potato´). 
Kernel:     Kernel version is whatever comes from the installation,
            as I have never changed it.
Libraries:  Only `potato´ packages are installed, nothing from `woody´.
Hardware:   Pentium II-based system.

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Scenario:   I want to install package linuxconf.

The package linuxconf exists on the Binary-2 CD.
The package linuxconf depends (amoung others) upon the following:

            freetype2 (which exists on the Binary-1 CD)
            libgd1g (which exists on the Binary-2 CD)

Neither freetype2 nor libgd1g are initially installed.

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To produce the error:

When I invoke `apt-get install linuxconf´ from an ordinary shell
prompt it asks me to insert the Binary-2 CD, then press <Enter>.

This I do, whereupon apt-get complains that it can't find freetype2.
(Remember that freetype2 is on the other CD, Binary-1)

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Workaround: 

If I first invoke `apt-get install freetype2´ I am prompted for
the Binary-1 CD, and all works OK. 

When I then invoke `apt-get install linuxconf´ I am prompted for
the Binary-2 CD, and all works OK.

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Solution:

I suggest that the location of each dependent package should be 
determined before each fetch operation, so that when a package
is to be fetched from CD, the correct CD can be prompted for
each time.

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Best regards,

Peter Hugosson-Miller
"Debian Linux - the choice of a GNU generation!"