Bug#153759: apt: Fails to install packages from cd-rom if mount location isn't /cdrom

[peter@softwolves.pp.se]

Package: apt
Version: 0.5.4
Severity: important

Since I hate clogging up the root directory of my installations, I mount all
my "external" file systems under /mnt, and have this in my /etc/fstab:

  /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user 0 0

Whereas apt-cdrom can be made to understand that by using

 apt-cdrom -d /mnt/cdrom add

when registering the cds (without -d it fails mysteriously complaining about
the cd being broken), it's impossible for apt-get to understand that the
disk should indeed be mounted under /mnt/cdrom. It just keeps asking over
and over for me to insert the cd into /cdrom. I have to manually add an
extra

  /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user 0 0

line to /etc/fstab to be able to use apt-get.

Apt-cdrom should understand non-default locations for cd-rom mounts (just
look for iso9660 file systems or /dev/cdrom?)

If that's not possible, the -d option should be recorded in the sources.list
file so that apt-get can find the disk properly.

I can imagine that the same problem would appear if you would have both a
cd-rom and a dvd-rom in the machine (one of my other pcs have that), and try
to use both cd and dvd media with the pure cd-rom drive as /cdrom.

-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Kernel Version: Linux tuli 2.2.20 #1 tis jan 8 18:37:14 CET 2002 i586 unknown

Versions of the packages apt depends on:
ii  libc6          2.2.5-10       GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone
ii  libstdc++2.10- 2.95.4-7       The GNU stdc++ library


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