On 24 May 2002, Jeff Licquia wrote: > I'm wanting to add a CD-ROM from a program to manage sources.list. > Obviously, I have to add an entry to sources.list in order for the CD to > be useful, but I want to have control over that process. However, I > must use apt-cdrom to do the actual adding, because of the index files. > But apt-cdrom always munges sources.list.
Er, Ok... > What's worse is that the obvious way to cause it to not munge > sources.list damages your system. If you pass "-o > Dir::Etc::sourcelist=/dev/null", apt-cdrom will happily replace the > character device node /dev/null with a text file containing the > sources.list line for the CD. How is this the obvious way? Don't do that :P > So, for now, I'm passing "-o Dir::Etc::sourcelist=<temp_path>/junk" and > removing the junk file. This is suboptimal, and arguably the behavior I can't imagine why you would want to run apt-cdrom and discard the source.list entires. It makes no sense, all the work apt-cdrom does will be undone by apt-get if the entries are not preserved. Jason -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
