Re: Does Unstable become Testing?
On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 02:31:12PM -0400, William Ballard wrote:
> What is renamed, what is forked, what is cloned?
>
> What properties will hold true after the fork?
>
> I presume that "stable" simply becomes symlinked to "sarge" instead of
> "woody."
Correct.
> Is a copy of the "sarge" archive created to become the new
> testing, which happens initially to point to the exact same places in
> /pool that stable does? And then they slowly diverge?
Exactly. Etch will start out identical to Sarge, then diverge as
packages from Unstable (Sid) are migrated into it.
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