On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 12:47:45PM -0500, Daniel B. wrote: > Paul E Condon wrote: > >Think OP was trying to use "sarge", not "stable". > > Right. > > > I think apt does not recognize "sarge" or "woody" or "etch" etc. > > Does anyone know why? (Is it a bug in APT tools? Something wrong in my > local mirror? Something else?) >
I think it is a design flaw, more than an implementation bug. Speaking from the outside of Debian, it seems that the 'design' of apt grew over time. Whether 'stable' is an alias for 'sarge' or 'sarge' is an alias for 'stable' is a big deal in a 'well designed' system, but this issue seems not to have been resolved as apt was implemented. Now to 'fix' it would involve major rewrite of stuff that 'works quite nicely, thankyou'. IMHO, its not going to happen. And I really do thank all the developers for the existence of apt and the packages that are available on it! -- Paul E Condon [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
