David Jardine wrote: > On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 08:12:27PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: >>>Somebody who was running stable didn't want woody to be replaced >>>by sarge without his being asked. Somebody running testing didn't >>>want to move from sarge to etch automatically. (Sid seems to be >>>the only stable one.) >> >>No, you are describing people who are running woody and sarge and should >>have those in their sources.list. > > > Exactly. But do we realise, as beginners, what the implications > are of putting "stable" or "testing" in sources.list? If we > didn't know we could use these words (or if we knew we couldn't), > we wouldn't. But we do and we get ourselves into a mess. I think > you're overestimating the ability of people like me to really grasp > the whole picture.
Nah, I can't buy this argument. When I look to see what entries I can put in my sources.list file, I actually take a web browser and look at the directory it comes from. In the "dists" directory, I can see that "testing" and "stable" are links to names like "sarge" and "etch". It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that links like testing and stable could change sometime in the future while actual directories like "sarge" and "etch" are going to stay around. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
