On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Martin Schulze wrote: > > 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 > > Please implement it. Debian can only benefit from multiple ways to > interoperate with multiple binary cd-roms.
I'm workin on it :> > > 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) > > Na, we cannot! Doing this we would mixing up free, partially free and > non-free stuff. The user still has to be able to install a completely > free system. If he wants to use the other parts too, that's up to him. Erm, that's not what I ment. A package file is one like debian/dists/stable/main/binary-i386/Packages it describes every archive available from debian/dists/stable/main/binary-i386 and only from that path. Extended to a CDROM URI that would mean the package file cdrom:Debian 2.1r1/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-i386/Packages Describes .debs of the form cdrom:Debian 2.1r1/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-i386/*/*.deb And nothing else. You new X-Media feild makes a package file describe .debs of the form *:*/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-i386/*/*.deb Which is not really acceptable to APT and is infact in direct conflict with how it is designed to operate! Jason
