David Whedon wrote:
> I don't have strong feelings, and in fact I had to bend over backwards to make
> the volatile stable, testing names work in a somewhat sane way. So do we want de
> bootstrap to accept 2.1/2.3/2.3 as well as slink/potato/woody ? Perhaps 3 symli
> nks in /usr/lib/debootstrap/s
> This will certianly work, but I still don't understand why that code is
> so fond of the release names, when with a simple change to debootstrap, it
The code is fond of release names because :
1 - that's what debootstrap wanted
2 - that is a common way of talking about releases, which is probb
David Whedon wrote:
> slink and sid will never change, their proper names are just that, slink and
> sid.
I would argue that their proper names are "2.1" and "unstable".
> Once woody is released someone installing potato will also want that name
> to not change, it will just stay 'potato'.
Or "
Matt Kraai wrote:
> Argh. This is my fault. When I added support for preserving the
> suite information, I didn't think to update the different
> possibilities for apt-get/distribution. As a temporary
> workaround, you can manually edit /target/root/dbootstrap_settings
> to set SUITE to unstabl
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 02:30:36PM -0600, Matt Kraai wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 09:04:10PM +0100, Richard Hirst wrote:
> > This is on hppa, base-config 1.04 (built myself), debconf 0.9.64.
> > I'm doing an unstable install, and /root/dbootstrap_settings ends up
> > containing SUITE='sid' a
> I guess the correct solution is to make dbootstrap write unstable
> instead of sid, but I don't know how to handle slink and potato.
> Suggestions?
Here is an idea:
slink and sid will never change, their proper names are just that, slink and
sid. Once woody is released someone installing pota
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 09:04:10PM +0100, Richard Hirst wrote:
> This is on hppa, base-config 1.04 (built myself), debconf 0.9.64.
> I'm doing an unstable install, and /root/dbootstrap_settings ends up
> containing SUITE='sid' as expected. base-config was trying to use
> stable, so I editted 00
Hi,
This is on hppa, base-config 1.04 (built myself), debconf 0.9.64.
I'm doing an unstable install, and /root/dbootstrap_settings ends up
containing SUITE='sid' as expected. base-config was trying to use
stable, so I editted 00dbootstrap_settings to run with -x rather than
-e to see what was h
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