Re: Bug#964248: marked as done (base-installer: Pass "--extra-suites=unreleased" to debootstrap on ports arches)
Samuel Thibault, le lun. 17 août 2020 10:28:54 +0200, a ecrit:
> John Paul Adrian Glaubitz, le lun. 17 août 2020 10:17:24 +0200, a ecrit:
> > On 8/17/20 1:06 AM, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > >> I checked the patch and it enables "unreleased" unconditionally. I'm
> > >> not sure whether that's a good idea.
> > >
> > > I don't think we really have a better choice: writing yet another arch
> > > list looks dirty, and trying whether the suite is available is probably
> > > quite complex to implement.
> >
> > ... I don't quite understand why "unreleased" is supposed to be part of the
> > base installation.
>
> For ports architectures, it often is, because the sid archive does not
> contain various packages that ports need.
>
> > "unreleased" is not a regular package archive and all
> > packages in there are usually only added temporarily.
>
> AFAIK that's not what ports' daily life really is.
See also
9bb019085356 ('Enable the "unreleased" suite for ports architectures.')
in the apt-setup package.
Samuel
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