Bug#389430: override suite for udebs

[dann frazier <dannf@debian.org>]

On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 05:16:05PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> How is setting mirror/udeb/override_suite any different than setting
> the existing mirror/udeb/suite?
> 
> dann frazier wrote:
> > +	for suite in "$codename" "$override_suite"; do
> > +	fetch "dists/$suite/Release" "$Release" || exit $?
> > +			fetch "dists/$suite/$pkgfile" "$Packages" || continue
> 
> The first pass through this loop, the Release and Packages files
> are downloaded, and checked, only to be thrown away by the second
> pass of the loop which downloads files with the same names from the
> override suite. What's the point of doing that extra work in the first
> pass if the data isn't used?

I want to use the udeb in the primary suite if there is no
corresponding udeb in the override_suite. The override_suite only
includes udebs that require customization. Does that answer your
question?

-- 
dann frazier