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Re: Debian-Installer Alpha Release



On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 07:47:48PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> | NB2: Looks to me like the cdrom-retreiver looks for Packages in
> |      dists/sid/<suite>/debian-installer/binary-*/Packages, which seems
> |      a mite off (isn't sid a suite?) especially for sarge cdroms.
> {main,contrib,non-free} is the suite, {stable,testing,unstable} is the
> distribution, AIUI.

Nope: stable/testing/unstable is known as the suite (or the distribution),
main/contrib/non-free is known as the component (or section). Suite and
component are unambiguous, unlike "distribution" (cf Debian) and "section"
(cf admin/utils/etc).

Cheers,
aj

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