Re: Bug#34080: APT install phase breaks on unrecognized distribution names like "hamm"
On Fri, 5 Mar 1999, Daniel Barclay wrote:
> 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?
Yep.
> 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?)
Historical reasons I suspect.
> 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/...).)
Run sed over the package file and change the contents around to be more
usefull for you.
Jason
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