On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Martin Schulze wrote: > > Heiko Schlittermann has written a new dselect installation method > > that supports multiple cds.[1] The reason why he hasn't uploaded > > it yet is that it depends on a hax0red version of dpkg-scanpackages > > to support a new field for each package "CD" which contains the > > CD on which the package is stored. > > I have negotiated myself with Heiko, picked the package from him, > debugged and grok'ed it, verified it, wrote some documentation for it, > corrected some text, completed it with a specialized version of > dpkg-scanpackages, included an adjusted manpage and got Che_Fox to > proofread the text.
I don't much care for the notion of a single master package file on the first CD.. I rather was intending APT to read the package files from each CD and use that to determine what is on which CD. (This fits with the URI scheme, X-Media does not) Can we perhaps have a Packages.AllCds in some dir that has this header and leave the normal package files with their normal meaning (.debs avail at that URI) Thanks, Jason
