On Sat, 20 Mar 1999, Sarel Botha wrote: > On Sat, Mar 20, 1999 at 03:38:07PM -0500, Will Lowe wrote: > > > What exactly do you mean "it rolls through every single package > > > on the dist"? If you mean what it sounds like, you only have to > > > > I think what he means is that when you install from CD, it rolls through > > the CD and checks every packages against the list of selections, like: > > Skipping deselected package: bash > > Skipping deselected package: bang > > Skipping deselected package: beat > > > > Rather than just going to the packages it wants to install. > > I don't think that apt-get fixes this, because apt-get doesn't let you > > install from CD. The issue is really with dselect's CD install method.
> Seeing as we're already on the subject...I've thought about a cd method for > apt > before, currently I'm just using a file: method which is a bit of a paint as I > have to mount the cd first. Isn't such a method already planned? Such a method > would make nearly all of the dpkg methods obsolete. The potato apt has such a method, read the apt-cdrom man page. Jason