Re: Bug#93612: Support for new archive structure

2001-04-13 Thread Philip Charles
On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, Philip Charles wrote: Apt-cdrom does not work. dselect works if the file system is strangely modified. apt will work if the CD is copied to a separate partition. Hurd even had apt-cdrom? The ancient version that was

Re: Bug#93612: Support for new archive structure

2001-04-13 Thread Anthony Towns
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 06:28:24AM +, Philip Charles wrote: I don't see any additions to the CD set from another site being a concern at all, as long as they are properly put in a seperate directory. If you tie the security too tightly to CD installation custom Debian CD builders will

Re: Bug#93612: Support for new archive structure

2001-04-13 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 10:42:33PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe écrivait: It works because you got lucky, you had a CD that was fortunately constructed properly. It is not supported, and if it does not work, I totally don't care. Of course, the CDs are constructed properly ! I'm in charge of

Re: Bug#93612: Support for new archive structure

2001-04-13 Thread Philip Charles
On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, Raphael Hertzog wrote: Of course, the CDs are constructed properly ! I'm in charge of maintaining debian-cd so that it builds "properly constructed" CDs ... I don't see why I need to change it to something where CDs are no more properly constructed ! /me grumbles :

Re: Debian woody and sid unofficial CDs

2001-04-13 Thread jason andrade
On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, Attila Nagy wrote: Hello, FSN.hu's Debian woody and sid unofficial CDs have been updated. planetmirror.com is updating the woody and sid mirrors. upto cd#3 on woody and sid will start after that. http://planetmirror.com/pub/debian-cd/unofficial/woody/

Re: Bug#93612: Support for new archive structure

2001-04-13 Thread Anthony Towns
On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 10:42:33PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: Or if you ask particularly nice I might extend the sources.list syntax so you can tell it to read Packages.cd directly What would happen if you made apt stat every .deb in a file:// url too, on apt-get update, say, and trimmed

Re: Debian woody and sid unofficial CDs

2001-04-13 Thread Mattias Wadenstein
On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, jason andrade wrote: On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, Attila Nagy wrote: Hello, FSN.hu's Debian woody and sid unofficial CDs have been updated. planetmirror.com is updating the woody and sid mirrors. And our nightly cronjob has started updating, it is currently at

Re: Bug#93612: Support for new archive structure

2001-04-13 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, Raphael Hertzog wrote: It works because you got lucky, you had a CD that was fortunately constructed properly. It is not supported, and if it does not work, I totally don't care. Of course, the CDs are constructed properly ! I'm in charge of maintaining debian-cd

Re: Bug#93612: Support for new archive structure

2001-04-13 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 02:23:41PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe écrivait: Because no matter what you do your CD will be invalid in some form, and using a verbatim Packages file is the least pain. That's the first time I see Debian willing to accept "invalid" CDs instead of designing cleanly the

Re: Bug#93612: Support for new archive structure

2001-04-13 Thread Philip Charles
On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: you can tell it to read Packages.cd directly I don't want that, it's a hack. :) No more than all the other ugly things that have been suggested, and this only affects the 3 people silly enough to loopback mount ISO's and try to use APT