Re: [sanvila@unex.es: Bug#68477: apt-cdrom confused by symlinks.]
On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, J.A. Bezemer wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, Santiago Vila wrote:
>
> > 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.
I don't think this is true. If you need a ftp.debian.org mirror to
make CDs, debian-cd may well respect whatever symlink is currently
present on the mirror, unless this is overriden by a user who knows
what he is doing, of course, so what's wrong with respecting
ftp.debian.org defaults?
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