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:
>
> > Nothing seems to be broken by the current situation, so don't try to fix it.
>
> Not true. Currently, you can't change an APT-CDROM line in
> /etc/apt/sources.list by changing the beginning of it so that it
> points to an FTP mirror, because this would make it to point to
> unstable, which is currently woody. If you are not very careful, you
> may end up upgrading your system from potato to woody, which is not
> what you might want. Yes, this is unlikely, but it is even more unlikely
> that something breaks if unstable does not point to potato, which
> is what I propose.
You should not do that in the first place. Having "unstable" isn't the only
thing which breaks then. non-US/main and non-US/contrib are not present on any
mirror in those locations. Furthermore having a "frozen" in sources.list is
going to stop working as soon as potato is released.
As said before, sources.list should have "potato", but that's apt-cdrom's
problem, and not debian-cd's. If I understand you correctly, you agree that
there should be at least one symlink; I'm saying that apt-cdrom should not use
those symlinks at all. (And if it uses symlinks like it does now, it doesn't
matter which one it uses -- they'll all be "broken" at some point in time from
your point of view. Which means that we can put any number of symlinks we want
on the CDs without making things worse.)
Regards,
Anne Bezemer
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