Packages files references packages in pool instead of binary-... location
Since the introducion of the pool (first in non-US, now in mainstream)
the Packages files addresses the files in the pool instead of the link
in the binary-... directories. This makes it impossible to use dselect
and possibly some other packages frontend as well. Of course any file as
to be at the new location as well.
While a pool structur is usful for directly downloding files or building
distributions, it is not for the distribution itself. Especially if
distributed on CD's the current binary-... structur is much better. And
Packages files are an integral part of distributions.
Anyway I hope the symlinks/hardlinks in the binary-... directories are
still there, so I get a change to build my own Packages file.
O. Wyss
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