Re: Bug#34080: APT install phase breaks on unrecognized distribution names like "hamm"
Jason,
Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>
> On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, Daniel Barclay wrote:
>
> > The installation phase of APT breaks if it doesn't
> > recognize the distribution designator. It seems to
> > revert to "stable" instead of what was specified.
>
> This is a side effect of how the archive is organized, it is not a bug.
> The paths to the .deb files are given explictly in the index file, so no
> matter what name you use to refer to the index files their idea of the
> archive structure will be used.
Do you mean that if I download the hamm archive, wait until
slink is stable, download it, and then want to install hamm,
I have to rename my hamm directory to "stable" before I can
use APT?
Why does the Filename field in the Package files contain
the "dist/stable" part? (That is, why do the Package
files refer to their own location?)
There's a bug in the design somewhere if one can't store a
Debian release in a directory with name more constant than
"stable" (with denotes different release at different times).
Do I need to rename my directory to something like
".../hamm/dists/stable/..."? (That's pretty redundant,
especially considering that it already has "dists" in it
(.../mirror/debian/dists/hamm/...).)
Daniel
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Daniel Barclay
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