Releases file
A suggestion for further improving quality of boot-floppies;
Friend of mine had "trouble" with 3.0.16-2001-10-24 idepci flavour from
people.debian.org/~aph. I think it is probably debootstrap that can be
"fixed".
The case is if you enter the wrong URL for downloading base, it attempts
to get the Release file, which results in a 404. Which gets stored in
/var/lib/apt/whatever... not sure where. Then he enters the right URL,
but this file has already been downloaded. Simply deleting the file by
hand from another terminal solved the issues.
I could suggest deleting the file automatically if it is a 404, or
something along those lines, deleting it if it is faulty, maybe letting
the user know and all... but the main issue and probably the right way
to solve it is to redownload the Release file each time the user ...
changes the address to download it from. Redownloading the file
absolutely every time is probably intentionally not done?
Hugo van der Merwe
ps, I do not subscribe to this list, please CC me a reply, even if it
is one of:
- "we hear you, will look into it"
- "right, we hear you but don't care"
- "go report a bug against debootstrap"
- "go report a bug against boot-floppies"
- "go away"
Gives me an idea if I must take this further/elsewhere <g>
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