Re: [sanvila@unex.es: Bug#68477: apt-cdrom confused by symlinks.]
On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, Santiago Vila wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > i'd like to have some input about this bug report. Should I do that or
> > should I reassign the bug to apt because it chooses unstable before stable
> > when all 3 links are available ?
> >
> > Keep in mind that I want to be able to generate CDs for stable, frozen and
> > unstable.
>
> IMHO, the right thing to do here would be to use "stable" if the CD is
> for stable, "frozen" if the CD is for frozen, and "unstable" if the CD
> is for unstable.
>
> For a given architecture, at a given time, any given distribution
> (potato, woody, etc.) is either stable, frozen or unstable, but never
> two or three different things among stable, frozen and unstable.
>
> Of course, for a test CD which is intended to be a "prototype for stable CD",
> using "stable" would be the logical choice.
There's no way for debian-cd to know all this, unless the user tells it. And
then we'd also want the possibility for two (more?) symlinks (frozen and
stable at the same time). Besides the user is generally not to be trusted to
make these decisions well, so I think it's the most logical and also safest
option to leave things as they are now.
Regards,
Anne Bezemer
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