Re: suite names
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 10:45:45AM +0100, Martin Sj?gren wrote:
> ons 2003-02-05 klockan 07.36 skrev Matt Kraai:
> > To fix bug 148606, I'd like to change choose-mirror and
> > cdrom-detect to use stable, testing, and unstable instead of sarge
> > and sid.
> >
> > I'll also need to change base-installer to retrieve the Release
> > file and use it to determine the suite code name for debootstrap.
> >
> > Any objections?
>
> My only comment is that until release it is handy to have 'testing' be
> the default, but when the release has come, it must be 'stable'.
We need to refer to sarge in this case. We can translate from the
actual to the symbolic release name in prebaseconfig.
> I don't see the problem with having the actual release names instead of
> symbolic ones. When running stable on a computer equipped only with
> modem, I prefer having the release name in sources.list instead of the
> symbolic "stable", it'll give me less hassle when a new version is
> released.
sources.list is set up by base-config, which always uses the
symbolic names.
Matt
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