On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 02:31:12PM -0400, William Ballard wrote: > What is renamed, what is forked, what is cloned? > > What properties will hold true after the fork? > > I presume that "stable" simply becomes symlinked to "sarge" instead of > "woody."
Correct. > Is a copy of the "sarge" archive created to become the new > testing, which happens initially to point to the exact same places in > /pool that stable does? And then they slowly diverge? Exactly. Etch will start out identical to Sarge, then diverge as packages from Unstable (Sid) are migrated into it. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading http://www.jabootu.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
