Re: Two suggestions for woody release
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- Subject: Re: Two suggestions for woody release
- From: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
- Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 23:11:02 -0500
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Steve Langasek wrote:
> Yes, of course there's apt pin support, but the people we're most
> concerned about not accidentally running unstable are the ones least
> capable of figuring out pin support on their own. So for Thomas's idea
> to work, there needs to be either an easy interface to allow users to
> configure this functionality, or a failsafe pin config that does what's
> needed. I agree though that as far as raw apt functionality is
> concerned, we seem to already be where we need to be.
Coming in a bit late here, but this parallels something I was thinking
about today. base-config's apt-setup could easily add any set of
distributuons to sources.list and set up an apt.conf file to pin to the
release the user picks. The issues are:
* Doesn't work for CD only installs.
* Increases download time of apt-get update. Will this annoy users?
Would I have to ask if they want this done?
* base-config is supposed to be frozen already.
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see shy jo
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