I hope that I have the right list, anyway if not please let me know and I'll repost. Here is my question:
I have a few packages that I have imported with alien or downloaded from non-free, etc., that I installed on my system with dpkg. this is really no big deal because I have always kept track, made script records of all of these package installations, and I haven't run into any problems I couldn't handle. However I am installing Debian on a computer for my brother and I want to make these packages show up in the dselect listing to make things as easy as possible for him (he presently knows nothing of computers beyond solitare =). I have three main local file archives that I want to keep separate for maintainance sake, they are: local - stuff that I imported with alien or came from unstable... dists/local/binary-i386 non-free - stuff that I downloaded from slink... dists/non-free/binary-i386 kde - the kde slink archive that was spoken of in news this week. dists/kde/binary-i386 Right now I have the Packages files in each binary-i386 directory respectively... If I use apt-get method in dselect there is no problem on my computer (this sounds good) but my brother is not on the net- from what I understand apt-get won't keep track of the multi-cds or will it? It seems as though if I use the multi-cd method that I will have to mix my dist/kde with my dist/local which I don't want to do since I want to be able to update my kde archive by replacing it and editing the file listings in the Packages file. So what I am asking is: can I get the best of both worlds and keep local and kde seperate while still listing the multicds in dselect? Any help will be greatly appreciated. William Lacy
