On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, Joey Hess wrote: > Ok, how about I make that question have a low priority? This means, people > who have indicated they are lacking in clues earlier when they set up > debconf will not see it and the defaults of US and http.us.debian.org will be > used.
That is better, but I'd still like to see netselect be used. > (However, that's rather silly, since I doubt these people will ever find > their way into the [S]etup screen of dselect anyway.) Then why all the interest in it?? > > Well, this still has problems. If you are going to do this then use > > apt-config to get the CD mount point and CD mounting command from the > > configuration file and use that. > > Ok. So use cdrom::Mount for the mount point and something like > "/cdrom/"::Mount and "/cdrom/"::UMount, where "cdrom" is the value of > cdrom::Mount? I think it is acquire::cdrom::mount and acquire::cdrom::"/cdrom/"::mount > If someone puts a wrapper around apt-get, they should install in in > /usr/local/bin, and their path should take care of ensuring it is used. Or > do you mean some other kind of wrapper? All the other tools use apt-config to locate the apt binaries, it makes sense to continue that. > Are you getting a "Can't open /tmp/Mirrors.masterlist" error on STDERR? Nope > Hm, I'd probably need to see a screenshot to understand who's going on here. > That first screen can sometimes have text on it that says you probably > installed with cdrom, yada yada, which does make it bigger. That is what is happening, why is the text of this screen changing? Jason
