Martin Schulze wrote:
I brought it up already but nobody jumped on.
Great, this time people were sensitively watching.
Slink currently cannot be installed on a single-cd system using cd images.
Everybody agrees?
Heiko Schlittermann has written a new dselect installation method
that
All I can say, Joey and Heiko, is congratulations. :) Debian's needed
this for a long time, and now we've got it! :)
Ben
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On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Martin Schulze wrote:
Heiko Schlittermann has written a new dselect installation method
that supports multiple cds.[1] The reason why he hasn't uploaded
it yet is that it depends on a hax0red version of dpkg-scanpackages
to support a new field for each package CD
Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Martin Schulze wrote:
Heiko Schlittermann has written a new dselect installation method
that supports multiple cds.[1] The reason why he hasn't uploaded
it yet is that it depends on a hax0red version of dpkg-scanpackages
to support a
On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Martin Schulze wrote:
I don't much care for the notion of a single master package file on the
first CD.. I rather was intending APT to read the package files from each
CD and use that to determine what is on which CD. (This fits with the URI
Please implement it.
On 16-Oct-1998, Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
I don't much care for the notion of a single master package file on the
first CD.. I rather was intending APT to read the package files from each
CD and use that to determine what is on which CD. (This fits with
On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Tyson Dowd wrote:
There is no reason why the X-Media field has to be in the Packages
files on the CD -- that information could be stored by the multi-cd
method when it reads in the CD info.
Indeed, why don't we do that instead of complicating the CD making
process with a
Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Tyson Dowd wrote:
There is no reason why the X-Media field has to be in the Packages
files on the CD -- that information could be stored by the multi-cd
method when it reads in the CD info.
Indeed, why don't we do that instead of
On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 02:39:38PM +1000, Tyson Dowd wrote:
:
: There is no reason why the X-Media field has to be in the Packages
: files on the CD -- that information could be stored by the multi-cd
: method when it reads in the CD info.
... but not, if the first CD contains all packages files
On 16-Oct-1998, Heiko Schlittermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 02:39:38PM +1000, Tyson Dowd wrote:
:
: There is no reason why the X-Media field has to be in the Packages
: files on the CD -- that information could be stored by the multi-cd
: method when it reads in the
On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 09:10:20PM +1000, Tyson Dowd wrote:
: On 16-Oct-1998, Heiko Schlittermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 02:39:38PM +1000, Tyson Dowd wrote:
: :
: : There is no reason why the X-Media field has to be in the Packages
: : files on the CD -- that
Hi,
just a short remark on the version I uploaded today. The methods
don't require the regular `Packages' files but use their own ones
which are named `Packages.cd' or `Packages.cd.gz' resp.
This makes other methods of dselect still work with the new cds.
However this requires two sets of
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