Re: Eliminating upgrade confusion
On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 06:01:51AM +0000, s. keeling wrote:
>
> I kinda, sorta, almost, like the idea of forcing users to define their
> chosen distribution (potato, woody, sarge, etch) in their
> /etc/apt/apt.conf
>
Elsewhere on this list I saw a suggestion that I think is a good, more
gentle way to get newbies started. Change policy so that the installer
that ships with each release to use the name of the release in the
sources.list file that it puts on disk. Thus, if a newbie had
installed woody, his sources.list would contain lines refering only to
woody, not to stable. Had this been the convention, the newbies would
not now be suffering with a sudden mysterious (to them) disaster.
They would be asking how to get this new release, and the answer would
be simple to give and simple to apply.
Personally I dislike the use of force.
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Paul E Condon
pecondon@mesanetworks.net
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