On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 05:56:43PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > That was what we are talking about, they simply would not be on the boot > floppies but would be packaged seperately to advoid confusion. Ie we have > 2 cdrom methods, 2 nfs methods, 4 'disk' methods, 3 ftp and 2 http !
The base system currently includes dpkg, dpkg-mountable, dpkg-multicd and apt. dpkg provides cdrom, nfs, harddisk, mounted and floppy dpkg-mountable provides mountable dpkg-multicd provides multi_cd, multi_nfs and multi_mount I guess dpkg-mountable may be removed from the base system. Someone should move methods on dpkg*.deb to their own packages, and make dpkg*.deb depend on a virtual package "dselect-method". That way I may exclude some of those old methods from the base system, but they will be there as packages if someone needs them. But, as that means messing with dpkg I guess that won't happen for slink. As a kludge, I may remove the /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/disk/ directory from the base system, or modify /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/disk/names there, thus removing cdrom, nfs, harddisk and mounted, or just some of them, from the list of available methods, but I fear the flames and flood of bug reports that will happen next... Would it be enough to change the default access method to multi_cd? (Just echoing "multicd multi_cd" to /var/lib/dpkg/cmethopt ). -- Enrique Zanardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
