Re: [sanvila@unex.es: Bug#68477: apt-cdrom confused by symlinks.]
reassign 68477 apt
severity 68477 wishlist
thanks
Le Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 01:19:08PM +0200, Santiago Vila écrivait:
[ The probleme explained here is that stable, frozen and unstable points
to the same directory on an Official CD. The only user visible problem it
could generate is when a user wants to change a cdrom: line in sources.list by
a http: or ftp: line. He may well switch to unstable if the cdrom lines
points to unstable while using a stable CD set. ]
> 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.
Having the 3 links pointing to the same directory is not a big problem on
the CD. The problem you're telling us is that apt-cdrom doesn't select the
good one (merely unstable instead of stable). So that's a problem in
apt-cdrom.
And someone else noted it, it would be even better if apt-cdrom could put
lines in sources.list using the codenames (potato) instead of the status
(stable, frozen, unstable) of the release. Even if we really need to use
the status of the release, I guess that apt-cdrom could deal it with the
Release files ...
Cheers,
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