On 16-Oct-1998, Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jason Gunthorpe 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.
Please take a quick look at my proposal in the other part of this thread. Although I agree that it doesn't matter too much if we use an "inferior" method for this release while a better one is worked on. The proposal allows both schemes to work -- you can have one Packages file per CD, or multiple ones on the first CD. > > 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. This is just a technical problem. There is no reason why the X-Media field has to be in the Packages files on the CD -- that information could be stored by the multi-cd method when it reads in the CD info. -- Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Benjamin Franklin Tyson Dowd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://tyse.net
