Hamish, >One thing I find a bit annoying with dselect/dpkg is the way it checks >the version of EVERY package when you pick Install. Last night I did >an NFS installation (and the remote source was from CD-ROM), and this >step was very slow. Can anything be done about this, eg trusting >the packages list instead of looking for newer versions, or whatever?
You could run through these packages in dselect typing =. This makes the process run a little faster, but has the disadvantage that it doesn't automatically install upgrades. The version checking process is is a bit slow, I agree, but the tradeoff in flexibility is probably worthwhile. At least for now. >Also, how does dselect cope if it doesn't have the root debian tree? >For the past few days I've been fiddling a lot and I've had the >Debian CD in my CD-ROM drive all the time, but I'm about to lend it >to someone. Will dselect still work with nothing but a local directory, >or should I just use dpkg by hand? > Without a debian package tree it just presents you with a list of installed packages. However, you can set the access method to use a >local or NFS-mounted directory (and I think ftp - dunno offhand). >Casper Boden-Cummins.
