Re: [sanvila@unex.es: Bug#68477: apt-cdrom confused by symlinks.]
On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, Santiago Vila wrote:
> 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?
I suspect a rather large number of CDs is being generated from private mirrors
that only mirror potato/ and don't have symlinks at all. This would break
debian-cd if no special precautions were made. And the detection of "what is
symlinking to <dir>" would already be complicated enough to do correctly.
Regards,
Anne Bezemer
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