Hi all, I have finally got ahold of some Debian CDs so I sat down today and improved the APT CD handling somewhat, fixed a bunch of little things, but the most important is that CD swapping now works as I had originally intended it [ie minimal swaps].
Simulations on some of my package sets here show that the largest number of swaps you have to do on a hamm -> slink upgrade is 3, the 'chain' looks like this: libc6/libc5 -> libtiff3 -> libtiff3g Each arrow is an unadvoidable disk exchange. Basically it seems whoever ordered these disks did not consider conflicts so APT is forced to take an extra swap to install the two tiff libraries. The same deal applies to all of the libc5 compatibility libraries on the second disk. (jpeg is also popular) I also touched things up so that /'s and :'s can be in the CD label, before APT had to convert them to _'s.. Now [] and " are the only reserved characters, don't use them in labels! This is all in CVS, I'll put up a deb in http://www.debian.org/~jgg/ (0.3.16.1) tomorrow sometime. I'm going to see if I can get it to auto-eject/un-eject the CD during media swaps and then that should finish it off quite nicely.. Extensive testing during potato will be required I'm sure :> Jason
