Anthony Towns wrote: > On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 05:40:42PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > > If the CDs had Release files that included the code name then we could > > use that to map between the names. Unfortunatly, the CDs do not > > currently have such a thing, nor does the debian archive. > > Huh? > > ] $ lynx -dump http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/Release | > ] grep -i Codename: > ] Codename: sarge > ] $ lynx -dump http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sarge/Release | > ] grep -i Suite: > ] Suite: testing > > If the CDs don't already have those fields, it should be trivial to add > them, afaics.
I was looking at the wrong release files.. CDs are also ok. It seems to me that since debootstrap already knows how to download dists/$SUITE/Release, and in fact does so, it would be best to make it download them and use them to map to release code names. It would probably work something like this: If debootstrap is told to use a suite that it does not have a script for, try calling download_release_indices. If that is able to download a release file for the suite, look for the codename. If there is a script for the codename, then use it (and try to avoid re-downloading the Release and Packages files again, probably). Else abort. Then d-i can just make mirror/distribution use stable, testing, and unstable instead of code names. Sound sane? Any volenteers who know debootstrap better than I do? -- see shy jo
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