On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 02:38:13PM -0500, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: > > I'm not talking about "console-apt", but about "aptitude". I see no > > reason why it would not support installation from multiple CD's, > > provided those CD's are registered by "base-config". AFAIK, it > > supports "dpkg --set-selections"... or something like it, since it > > does remember your selections between invocations like dselect does. > > Hmm. It remembers selections, but it does not do it by setting values in > the status file. Instead, it uses /var/state/aptitude/pkgstates. Oh but > it looks like it merges in /var/lib/dpkg/status to that file when it is > run, so that's ok. > > If someone wants to arrange for aptitude to be installed by debootstrap > as part of the base system, I will be happy to make base-config offer it > along with dselect as options for the second-stage package selector. But > this needs to be done really quickly if it's done at all. > > When did aptitude become such a nice peice of work? Wow.
Wow. That made my day. Let me know what you decide. I need to go on a bugfixing spree soon anyway.. (I'm not clear on what our current definition of "base" is -- will this cause aptitude to be affected by the base freeze?) Daniel -- /-------------------- Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -------------------\ | "...drums...drums in the deep!" | | J. R. R. Tolkien | \----------------- The Turtle Moves! -- http://www.lspace.org ----------------/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
