On Mon, Aug 03, 1998 at 09:14:12AM -0400, Randy Edwards wrote: > Does anyone know what the sid subdirectory in dists is? > > I'm guessing that this is the follow-on version after slink, but that > idea seemed a bit strange as slink is unstable. Anyone know for sure?
no... sid is for "non-mature" dists. The idea is that ports like "debina-sparc" (which I run on my IPC at home ;)) were NOT releaced with hamm and are not planned on being ready for releace with slink. Thus sid is their "holding dist" until they are ready...then they will be moved into a releace dist when the time comes. Thus "sid" will be around forever and never itself be releaced. That way (I guess) there will be no confusion near rleace time of what is getting frozen and what isn't... you only need to worry about sid if you have a system that is NOT an Alpha, i386, or a PPC (I think) and that pretty much rules out most people. I hope that we can soon add Sparc (SUN systems) architechture to that list ;) -Steve -- /* -- Stephen Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>------------ */ E-mail "Bumper Stickers": "A FREE America or a Drug-Free America: You can't have both!" "honk if you Love Linux" -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
