Re: Using wheezy or testing in ,,, OT question.

["Christofer C. Bell" <christofer.c.bell@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Paul E Condon <pecondon@mesanetworks.net> wrote:

On 20120129_090739, Christofer C. Bell wrote:

> they're actually being put into a directory named Wheezy.
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Unfortunately, Debian lives in a real world replete with uninformed
opinion. I'm hoping that you can offer some assurance that your
statement is fact, because I really like what you say. What can you
say to reassure me?

Paul, it's shown in my original message:

lrwxrwxrwx    1 21285    21285            6 Feb  5  2011 testing -> wheezy

lrwxrwxrwx    1 21285    21285           23 Feb  5  2011 testing-proposed-updates -> wheezy-proposed-updates

drwxr-sr-x    5 21285    21285           28 Jan 29  2012 wheezy

drwxr-sr-x    5 21285    21285           21 Jan 29  2012 wheezy-proposed-updates

Take a look at the first character in each line, that's the equivalent to "ls -l" output.  The "testing" directory starts with an "l", indicating a symlink.  The listing shows it, too "testing -> wheezy".  The same for the testing-proposed-updates directory.  If you look further down, the wheezy and wheezy-proposed-updates directories start with a "d" indicating an actual directory.

I hope this clears it up!

-- 
Chris