Bug#418382: choose-mirror: Better handling of suite/codename; support oldstable
clone 418382 -1
reassign -1 apt-setup
thanks
On Monday 09 April 2007 16:13, Frans Pop wrote:
> During the release process for Etch, we also saw a somewhat related
> problem in choose-mirror with CD installs because the Release file on
> the mirrors had not been updated even though CD-ROMs were already at
> stable=etch.
[...]
> Alternatively, we could also let generators/50mirror set mirror/suite
> to the codename from the CD (similar to what we do in debian/rules).
Decided for now to implement this alternative in apt-setup because it is
the least risky; after all, it is completely similar to what we already
do for network based installations.
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