On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 6:02 PM, Christofer C. Bell
<christofer.c.bell@gmail.com> 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 23 Feb 5 2011 testing-proposed-updates -> wheezy-proposed-updates
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!
To be even more clear, here is the actual output of "ls -l" using ncftp, connected to
ftp.us.debian.org, in the /debian/dists directory:
ncftp /debian/dists > ls -l
lrwxrwxrwx 1 21285 21285 5 Oct 1 10:25 Debian5.0.9 -> lenny
lrwxrwxrwx 1 21285 21285 7 Jan 28 10:33 Debian6.0.4 -> squeeze
drwxrwsr-x 5 21285 21285 22 Jan 29 2012 experimental
drwxrwsr-x 5 21285 21285 22 Oct 8 10:29 lenny
drwxrwsr-x 5 21285 21285 2191 Jan 29 2012 lenny-proposed-updates
lrwxrwxrwx 1 21285 21285 5 Feb 14 2009 oldstable -> lenny
lrwxrwxrwx 1 21285 21285 22 Feb 14 2009 oldstable-proposed-updates -> lenny-proposed-updates
lrwxrwxrwx 1 21285 21285 24 Feb 5 2011 proposed-updates -> squeeze-proposed-updates
lrwxrwxrwx 1 21285 21285 12 Aug 4 2008 rc-buggy -> experimental
-rw-rw-r-- 1 21285 21285 635 Jan 28 10:32 README
drwxr-sr-x 5 21285 21285 22 Jan 29 2012 sid
drwxr-sr-x 5 21285 21285 21 Jan 28 11:30 squeeze
drwxr-sr-x 5 21285 21285 4010 Jan 29 2012 squeeze-proposed-updates
drwxr-sr-x 5 21285 21285 19 Jan 29 2012 squeeze-updates
lrwxrwxrwx 1 21285 21285 7 Feb 14 2009 stable -> squeeze
lrwxrwxrwx 1 21285 21285 24 Feb 14 2009 stable-proposed-updates -> squeeze-proposed-updates
lrwxrwxrwx 1 21285 21285 15 Feb 5 2011 stable-updates -> squeeze-updates
lrwxrwxrwx 1 21285 21285 6 Feb 5 2011 testing -> wheezy
lrwxrwxrwx 1 21285 21285 23 Feb 5 2011 testing-proposed-updates -> wheezy-proposed-updates
lrwxrwxrwx 1 21285 21285 3 Nov 10 2007 unstable -> sid
drwxr-sr-x 5 21285 21285 26 Jan 29 2012 wheezy
drwxr-sr-x 5 21285 21285 21 Jan 29 2012 wheezy-proposed-updates
ncftp /debian/dists >
Anything starting with a "d" is a directory, "l" is a symlink (with the link target indicated at the end of the line), and "-" is a regular file. I trimmed what I sent earlier to focus only on testing and wheezy and they're relationship with each other. The full listing is a bit more complex. :-)