Re: [sanvila@unex.es: Bug#68477: apt-cdrom confused by symlinks.]
On 11 Aug 2000, Philip Hands wrote:
> "J.A. Bezemer" <costar@panic.et.tudelft.nl> writes:
>
> > As said before, sources.list should have "potato", but that's apt-cdrom's
>
> exactly right --- using the code name for HTTP access means that you
> preserve the benefit of going through a squid cache when the
> distribution changes status.
Related note: I wonder why the Packages.gz file says
Filename: dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/net/3c5x9utils_1.1-2.deb
instead of
Filename: dists/potato/main/binary-i386/net/3c5x9utils_1.1-2.deb
Using "potato" in this Filename field would make the symlink
completely unneeded for apt and dselect, and also it would make
regeneration of the Packages file unneeded after changing potato from
frozen to stable.
Funny, it seems that the more we use the codename and not the
distribution status, the better...
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