Bug#240331: apt: CDROMs must be manually ejected and mounted on Apple/Mac/PowerPC

[Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>]

reassign 240331 base-config
thanks

On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 12:40:52PM +0000, Chris Tillman wrote:
> Package: apt
> Version: 0.5.23
> Severity: normal
> 
> I first noticed this problem when using base-config from the Sarge
> installer (which I downloaded yesterday). I was installing a fresh
> system, and for the first time using only CDs rather than doing a
> network install. base-config goes into an apt configuration step,
> and I chose CDROM. Then it calls apt-cdrom and asks for a CD to 
> be inserted so it can scan it.
> 
> CD #1 was already in the drive the first time this happened, and I
> pushed the OK button several times with no response. I finally figured
> out that the CD in the drive had been unmounted, and switched to
> another console and mounted it. Then the installer was happy -- until
> it asked for the next CD. I figured out that again the CD was
> unmounted, and in order to put in another CD, I had to mount that one,

You had to mount the CD in order to eject it?

> eject it (using the eject command -- remember many Macs don't have a CD
> eject button on their CD drives), and then insert a new CD and mount it.

All mounting and unmounting is handled by base-config, not apt, in this
case.  If you want the CD to be automatically ejected, that would need to be
done in base-config as well.

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 - mdz