(I think a bogus copy of this went out... my apologies) I'm on a dialup, and I have the Woody CD-ROM distribution, so I want "apt-get" to first try to find packages on the CDs before using the remote archive entries in "sources.list". But as soon as I add an "http" entry to "sources.list", it insists on trying the remote archive, and ignores the CD-ROM entries.
Thus far, I can't find anything in the docs that explains how to force it to first try the CD-ROMs and use remote access as second priority. If I delete the "http" (or whatever) remote archive entry from "sources.list", that does force it to revert to CD-ROM, but then when I do need to access anything from the "testing" or "unstable" distributions, I have to reinstate the entries in the sources.list file and then re-update apt-get with the remote archive locations for the testing, etc., which gets very boring and causes me to start drinking after a few cycles of that at 1AM. I also suspect that if it's looking on the remote archive for a package, it will always look for all dependent packages on the archive, and I'd rather it would look first on the CD-ROM for those also. In fact, I suspect that it's always looking for the most recent copy of whatever it can find, and I'd rather it would use what it can find on the CD-ROM unless the dependencies demand the latest version... (1) Is there a way to set it up to do these things, or am I going to have to either (a) put up with downloading hundreds of megabytes via dialup or (b) hack a solution together with dpkg and dselect ? (2) if the answer to all this is somewhere in the documentation, FAQs, list archives, etc. etc. I'd like to know where it is, as extensive searching has thus far failed to reveal it. I did find some syntax for setting "stable" as the default for installs in the apt.conf file, which I thought *might* affect its behavior w/r/t whether it would first look on the CD-ROM, since the CD-ROM is ostensibly the only valid entry for "stable" in the "sources.list" file, but apt-get didn't like the syntax. If there's a more appropriate list for this posting, please let me know; I didn't find a list dedicated to "apt", "dpkg", "dselect", and the updating process... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
