[Aptitude-devel] Bug#610183: aptitude: on CD/DVD install fail, allow online install

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

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Hi,

2011-01-16 00:00 David Jonathan Bush:
>Package: aptitude
>Version: 0.4.11.11-1~lenny1
>Severity: wishlist
>
>If a package is read from a DVD by aptitude and an error occurs such as
>hash sum mismatch, instead of simply failing the install, allow the
>option to read the same package from an online repository. As things
>stand, an awkward workaround exists to remove reference to the flawed
>DVD from /etc/apt/apt.conf but why shouldn't aptitude be able to look
>elsewhere automatically? The DVD may still be usable for other
>packages.

The available computers that I have do not have optic media readers, so
I cannot reproduce this, so help to reproduce/confirm (or even fix :-))
is welcome.

I thought that perhaps by adding the online repository in
/etc/apt/sources.list aptitude would pick packages from both places,
isn't this the case?


Cheers.
-- 
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo at gmail.com>