Bug#549312: Looks as if this only occurs with more than 1 dvd

[Michael Vogt <mvo@debian.org>]

On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 10:29:24AM +0000, ael wrote:
> This bug is still present on all my machines including on a netbook
> with a freshly installed squeeze.
> 
> However, I am fairly sure that it only occurs when multiple dvds
> need to be mounted (necessarily sequentially, since there is only
> a single mount point). It is as if the path to the deb on the earlier
> dvds is cached somewhere: the dvd is changed, and when that cached path
> is used later, it is, of course, no longer valid.
> 
> This bug would seem to make debian installation from multiple DVDs
> nearly impossible: so pretty serious for those without high
> bandwidth connections.

I debugged the multi cdrom install today and fixed a bug in it, it
works for me now. The fix is in bzr  and we plan another point
release soon (hopefully this weekend) that includes this fix and some
more fixes from David. It would be nice if you could test once its
available and see if it fixes the bug you see as well. You can build
directly from bzr if you want to test it right away too:

$ bzr get http://bzr.debian.org/bzr/apt/apt/debian-sid/
$ cd debian-cd
$ bzr-buildpackage

(bzr-buildpackage needs the bzr-builddeb package).

Thanks,
 Michael