It seems that the thrust of this bug has not been perceived. Even when I have a full DVD install image sitting on the hard drive of my Ubuntu system, there appears to be no way to *install packages from it* without manually groveling around in its subdirectories and running dpkg!
There appears to be no way to tell apt-get "Here's a big local DVD ISO image that you can get packages from, when they haven't changed since the release." Apt-cdrom does not do this, or if somehow it does, the way to make it do this is completely unclear. (Of course, if a package has been updated since the release, apt-get should get the latest version from the net. But there's no need to get an unchanged package from the net -- it has already been downloaded once in the DVD image.) Such an option would significantly reduce the bandwidth needed for Ubuntu mirrors -- since the vast majority of subsequent package installs could come from the user's own hard drive rather than over the net. -- Ubiquity should put install image onto target disk for apt's use https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/455167 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
