Bug#286578: netboot tarballs should have version in the path somewhere

[Matt Taggart <taggart@debian.org>]

Package: debian-installer
Severity: wishlist

If netboot tarballs included a version string in the path somewhere then
it would be possible to install several in parallel without extra work.

Maybe something like
 debian-installer/i386/${VERSION}/
or
 debian-installer/${VERSION}/i386/

where $VERSION could be things like

rc2
daily-20041220
taggart-1.23
etc.

Then you could also have a "current" symlink a la boot-floppies.
Hmm, the tarball has symlinks that point back into the structure (like
pxelinux.cfg) so those would need to change too, but shouldn't be a
problem. There are probably other issues but they should be easily
found by just trying it.

Thanks,

-- 
Matt Taggart
taggart@debian.org