[Synaptic-devel] CDROM installations

[Andrey Tarassov]

Hi!

I have several comments about how synaptic handles installation of 
packages from a CD-ROM.

First of all, when the packages are fetched from the CD, the download 
speed and remaining time are both displayed as zeros. For example, if 
you are installing some kde package which is some 20-30 megabytes, then 
it takes several seconds to fetch it, but not 0 :-) And the download 
speed is surely higher than 0 b/s :-)

Secondly, it would be great that in case a package is available on 
several repositories, the following fetch order would be used:
- local file
- CD
- ftp/http

Currently, as I understood the package source is selected randomly. So, 
if you try to install all packages from a CD, there is a chance that 
some will be fetched from the web instead.

Thanks,

Andrey

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