Re: Woody? when did this happen? - when "stable" must be used to install slink - details (and probable latent bug)
> From: "Lewis, James M." <Jim.Lewis@alcoa.com>
> > Because it doesn't work for local mirrors.
> Actually, it does work IF
> you make a link called frozen that points to potato.
> Remove the link before running the rsync (or whatever)
> and replace it afterwards. When potato becomes stable,
> you have to make the link "stable". The names are changed
> in Packages file when they do this. As an alternate way,
> edit the Packages file and change frozen with potato...
>
> maybe it could be better but it does work as long as you
> know what's going on.
Why should users have to work around all that crap?
Why can't Debian fix the damn problem (the bad design)?
Daniel
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