Re: Installation report on AMD Duron
> On Friday, May 31, 2002, at 06:52 AM, Michael Stone wrote:
>
> > On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 08:54:20PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> >> Matt Kraai wrote:
> >>> * base-config sets the default value of apt-setup/distribution
> >>> to the value of SUITE, but
> >>> * its possible values are stable, testing, and unstable, so it
> >>> falls back to the old default, stable.
> >>>
> >>> Joey, is this correct? If so, what (if anything) can be done?
> >>
> >> Yes that's right, and nothing at this time.
> >
> > Why can't "woody" just be a valid setting?
> >
>
> "woody" should never be a valid setting, in my opinion.
>
> "unstable", "testing" or "frozen" yes, but never the distro codename.
>
> But the question is: How to change it from 'stable' to the snapshot of
> choice, automagically?
>
> I'm almost positive that it's probably almost impossible. The best we
> could hope for is a fancy little addition to the code in the dbootstrap
> (I think that's right), perhaps right near the beginning that allows a
> choice of which flavour you want to install, and then perform a
> variable-substitution the rest of the way through.
>
> I'm not saying that it would be overly pretty, or easy to do (ie: I
> can't do it!) but I'm sure if you wanted to do this little improvement
> and submit a patch to the appropriate maintainer........who knows.
I sorta think it is already implemented, from what I have seen from the
scripts, but for some reason the prompt is not shown and the default
('stable') is used. I'm not quite sure why...
Matthijs
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