Re: I've just found an infinite loop in the Woody bf2.4 1.44MB install disks!
On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 07:54:54PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> J M Cerqueira Esteves wrote:
> > Indeed it does. Changed to runlevel 1 on the laptop, installed
> > 1.33.18, rebooted and base-config ran with no loops. Got the list of packages.
> >
> > What is weird now is that dselect seems to have a list of... packages
> > from stable instead of woody! And indeed /etc/apt/sources.list is
> > pointing to stable... Ouch.
>
> I suppose the boot floppies are setting SUITE to stable then instead of
> using the only other sane choice, woody. I guess this will not be a
> prolem once woody is released.
No, it's debconf that doesn't understand 'woody': boot-floppies
sets 'woody', and base-config sets 'woody', but debconf only
understands 'stable', 'testing', etc. So it defaults to stable.
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