Re: Sid CD fails as apt source

[Andrew Malcolmson]

John Stevenson wrote:

I'm trying to use a sid iso image as a apt source.  I've successfully 
mounted it and added a file entry to sources.list as:

deb file:/mnt/iso/debian sid main

The correct way to add an Official Debian CD to the apt sources.list 
file is to use the command:

apt-cdrom add

You should run this command as root.  This will prompt you to put in a 
cdrom, do not mount the cdrom yourself as the apt-cdrom does all this 
for you.  You should end up with a sources.list entry that starts with:

deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux .....

You may find that some or all of the existing entries are commented out  
by  apt-cdrom.  If you are concerned, you should make a backup copy of 
sources.list.
Thanks, though pretty much the same thing happens after a apt-cdrom add:

Scanning Disc for index files..  Found 0 package indexes and 0 source 
indexes.
E: Unable to locate any package files, perhaps this is not a Debian Disc

I guess the basic problem is just that the Packages file is in a 
'binary-alpha' directory instead of in a 'binary-i386' directory as is 
usual.

But everyone who downloads a Sid image must have this problem but I 
don't see anyone mentioning this, so what's going on here?



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