Warning people off 1.0 (was Re: Unidentified subject!)
Bill Mitchell writes ("Re: Unidentified subject!"):
> Matthew Bailey <mbailey@cps.cmich.edu> said:
> > I don't know if this is a good news or bad news.
> > but I think there is a big misunderstanding about debian-0.93 and debian-1.0
> > I really forsee the need to do this
> >
> > debian-0.93
> > release -> debian-0.93
> > development/debian-1.0
> > NOTICE: NO LINK
> > development/trial-packages (or some such instead of inside private/project)
The problem with this is that moving directories is a pain for the
mirror sites. We had this already when we released 0.93; we don't
want to have to physically move 1.0 when we release it.
> Perhaps this is part of the problem:
>
> -rw-r--r-- 1 10000 debian 2982 Oct 27 02:55 README.DEBIAN
> drwxrwxr-x 6 10000 debian 512 Nov 17 04:36 debian-0.93
> lrwxrwxr-x 1 10000 debian 11 Nov 17 04:55 debian-0.93R6 -> debian-0.93
> drwxrwxr-x 6 10000 debian 512 Nov 17 04:36 debian-1.0
> lrwxrwxr-x 1 10000 debian 10 Nov 17 04:55 development -> debian-1.0
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> DEBIAN.README predates the 0.93 vs. 1.0 split, and there's no info in
> there about what the difference between 0.93 and 1.0 is or which is
> appropriate to download for what purpose. The only hint that 1.0 is
> bleeding edge is the fact that there's a symlink named "development"
> pointing to it.
I've added/edited various README's and .message files. Take a look at
what you see now; I think it's pretty hard to miss ...
Ian.
-chiark:~> ncftp debian
NcFTP 2.1.0 (July 15, 1995), by Mike Gleason, NCEMRSoft.
Current local directory is /u/ian/download.
Trying to connect to ftp.debian.org...
**********************************************************************
WELCOME TO
C E N T R A L M I C H I G A N U N I V E R S I T Y
DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
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Hello, user at chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk.
You are currently user 13 out of a possible 150 in your class.
If you experience problems with this archive or if you have comments or
questions about this archive, please contact ftpadmin@ftp.debian.org.
Anonymous users: Please use a real e-mail address as your password,
not "root", "Netscape", "WWWuser", etc., and please keep the number of
connections to one. If this becomes a problem, we will deny access to
your machine, or even to your entire domain.
The official Debian GNU/Linux archive is located on this machine in the
directory /debian.
NOTE: This site allows the .tar.gz convention, but please note that 99%
of the files on this site are already compressed. Therefore, .gz
should not be used, as it creates unnecessary load on the server.
Guest login ok, access restrictions apply.
debian:/> cd /debian
The current version of Debian GNU/Linux is 0.93 Release 6,
in the debian-0.93 directory here.
For more information about Debian GNU/Linux, please visit the World
Wide Web page http://www.debian.org/.
Please read the file README.DEBIAN
it was last modified on Thu Oct 26 22:55:35 1995 - 23 days ago
Please read the file README.USE-0.93
it was last modified on Sat Nov 18 11:23:29 1995 - 0 days ago
Please read the file README.mirrors
it was last modified on Thu Oct 26 22:55:35 1995 - 23 days ago
debian:/debian> dir
total 1188
-rw-rw-r-- 1 3969 debian 201 Nov 18 16:26 .message
-rw-r--r-- 1 0 debian 0 Nov 9 04:34 .notar
-rw-r--r-- 1 3969 debian 140303 Nov 18 04:54 Packages-Master
-rw-r--r-- 1 3969 debian 39553 Nov 18 04:56 Packages-Master.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 10000 debian 2982 Oct 27 02:55 README.DEBIAN
-rw-rw-r-- 1 3969 debian 210 Nov 18 16:23 README.USE-0.93
-rw-r--r-- 1 10000 debian 2438 Oct 27 02:55 README.mirrors
drwxrwxr-x 6 10000 debian 512 Oct 3 21:29 contrib
drwxrwxr-x 6 10000 debian 512 Nov 18 04:34 debian-0.93
lrwxrwxr-x 1 10000 debian 11 Nov 18 16:27 debian-0.93R6 -> debian-0.93
drwxrwxr-x 6 10000 debian 512 Nov 18 16:35 debian-1.0
drwxrwxr-x 4 10003 debian 512 Jun 24 02:15 debian-bugs
lrwxrwxr-x 1 10000 debian 10 Nov 18 16:27 development -> debian-1.0
drwxrwxr-x 2 10000 debian 512 Nov 9 05:46 doc
drwxrwxr-x 2 10000 debian 512 Oct 27 03:52 info
drwxrwxr-x 2 10000 debian 512 Sep 26 17:51 kernel
-rw-r--r-- 1 10000 debian 384614 Nov 18 04:34 ls-laR
drwxrwxr-x 5 10000 debian 512 Oct 3 21:29 non-free
drwxrwx--x 3 0 daemon 512 Nov 9 04:34 private
drwxrwxr-x 5 10000 debian 512 Sep 28 16:09 project
lrwxrwxr-x 1 10000 debian 13 Nov 18 16:27 stable -> debian-0.93R6
drwxrwxr-x 2 10000 debian 512 Sep 28 16:09 tools
debian:/debian> cd debian-1.0
*** WARNING! THIS IS UNRELEASED ALPHA SOFTWARE. ***
The currently released version of Debian GNU/Linux is 0.93.
You can find Debian 0.93 in ../debian-0.93.
Please read the file README.DO-NOT-USE
it was last modified on Sat Nov 18 11:23:29 1995 - 0 days ago
debian:/debian/debian-1.0> dir
total 3690
-rw-rw-r-- 1 3969 debian 156 Nov 18 16:31 .message
-rw-r--r-- 1 10000 debian 1712340 Nov 18 04:34 Contents
-rw-r--r-- 1 10000 debian 142840 Nov 18 04:34 Contents.gz
lrwxrwxr-x 1 10000 debian 15 Nov 18 16:35 Packages -> binary/Packages
lrwxrwxr-x 1 10000 debian 18 Nov 18 16:35 README.DO-NOT-USE -> ../README.USE-0.93
drwxrwxr-x 22 10000 debian 512 Nov 18 04:56 binary
drwxrwxr-x 3 10000 debian 512 Nov 9 23:53 disks
drwxrwxr-x 22 10000 debian 512 Nov 18 04:56 ms-dos
drwxrwxr-x 22 10000 debian 512 Sep 28 15:26 source
lrwxrwxr-x 1 10000 debian 9 Nov 18 16:35 stable -> ../stable
debian:/debian/debian-1.0> page README.DO-NOT-USE
Debian 1.0 is not released; the 1.0 development tree is
here but you should probably not use it.
The currently-released version of Debian is 0.93 - follow
the link "stable" or use the "debian-0.93" directory.
debian:/debian/debian-1.0>
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