Re: [sanvila@unex.es: Bug#68477: apt-cdrom confused by symlinks.]

[Philip Hands <phil@hands.com>]

"J.A. Bezemer" <costar@panic.et.tudelft.nl> writes:

> 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.

Well, www.uk.debian.org does work with this:

deb http://www.uk.debian.org/debian potato main contrib non-US/main non-US/contrib

but you're mostly right.


> As said before, sources.list should have "potato", but that's apt-cdrom's

exactly right --- using the code name for HTTP access means that you
preserve the benefit of going through a squid cache when the
distribution changes status.

Cheers, Phil.