On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 10:27:56 -0400, Clint Adams wrote: > It doesn't work so well when there's no /cdrom?
Hrmpf. dpkg is the low-level packaging tool, it needs to be fed the location of packages. The bug report was complaining that dpkg missed functionality; I showed it already possessed that functionality through a concrete example. Of course, for the sake of convenience, there should be a way to get it through a higher-level tool like apt or dselect, but that's beside the real point: dpkg already has what one needs to restore the system in the type of situation the reporter described. Ray -- LEADERSHIP A form of self-preservation exhibited by people with auto- destructive imaginations in order to ensure that when it comes to the crunch it'll be someone else's bones which go crack and not their own. - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan
