On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 6:02 PM, Christofer C. Bell < christofer.c.b...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Paul E Condon > <pecon...@mesanetworks.net>wrote: > >> On 20120129_090739, Christofer C. Bell wrote: >> >> > they're actually being put into a directory named Wheezy. >> ------------------------------------^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >> > >> >> Unfortunately, Debian lives in a real world replete with uninformed >> opinion. I'm hoping that you can offer some assurance that your >> statement is fact, because I really like what you say. What can you >> say to reassure me? >> > > Paul, it's shown in my original message: > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 21285 21285 6 Feb 5 2011 testing -> wheezy > lrwxrwxrwx 1 21285 21285 23 Feb 5 2011 > testing-proposed-updates -> wheezy-proposed-updates > drwxr-sr-x 5 21285 21285 28 Jan 29 2012 wheezy > drwxr-sr-x 5 21285 21285 21 Jan 29 2012 > wheezy-proposed-updates > > Take a look at the first character in each line, that's the equivalent to > "ls -l" output. The "testing" directory starts with an "l", indicating a > symlink. The listing shows it, too "testing -> wheezy". The same for the > testing-proposed-updates directory. If you look further down, the wheezy > and wheezy-proposed-updates directories start with a "d" indicating an > actual directory. > > I hope this clears it up! > To be even more clear, here is the actual output of "ls -l" using ncftp, connected to ftp.us.debian.org, in the /debian/dists directory: ncftp /debian/dists > ls -l lrwxrwxrwx 1 21285 21285 5 Oct 1 10:25 Debian5.0.9 -> lenny lrwxrwxrwx 1 21285 21285 7 Jan 28 10:33 Debian6.0.4 -> squeeze drwxrwsr-x 5 21285 21285 22 Jan 29 2012 experimental drwxrwsr-x 5 21285 21285 22 Oct 8 10:29 lenny drwxrwsr-x 5 21285 21285 2191 Jan 29 2012 lenny-proposed-updates lrwxrwxrwx 1 21285 21285 5 Feb 14 2009 oldstable -> lenny lrwxrwxrwx 1 21285 21285 22 Feb 14 2009 oldstable-proposed-updates -> lenny-proposed-updates lrwxrwxrwx 1 21285 21285 24 Feb 5 2011 proposed-updates -> squeeze-proposed-updates lrwxrwxrwx 1 21285 21285 12 Aug 4 2008 rc-buggy -> experimental -rw-rw-r-- 1 21285 21285 635 Jan 28 10:32 README drwxr-sr-x 5 21285 21285 22 Jan 29 2012 sid drwxr-sr-x 5 21285 21285 21 Jan 28 11:30 squeeze drwxr-sr-x 5 21285 21285 4010 Jan 29 2012 squeeze-proposed-updates drwxr-sr-x 5 21285 21285 19 Jan 29 2012 squeeze-updates lrwxrwxrwx 1 21285 21285 7 Feb 14 2009 stable -> squeeze lrwxrwxrwx 1 21285 21285 24 Feb 14 2009 stable-proposed-updates -> squeeze-proposed-updates lrwxrwxrwx 1 21285 21285 15 Feb 5 2011 stable-updates -> squeeze-updates lrwxrwxrwx 1 21285 21285 6 Feb 5 2011 testing -> wheezy lrwxrwxrwx 1 21285 21285 23 Feb 5 2011 testing-proposed-updates -> wheezy-proposed-updates lrwxrwxrwx 1 21285 21285 3 Nov 10 2007 unstable -> sid drwxr-sr-x 5 21285 21285 26 Jan 29 2012 wheezy drwxr-sr-x 5 21285 21285 21 Jan 29 2012 wheezy-proposed-updates ncftp /debian/dists > Anything starting with a "d" is a directory, "l" is a symlink (with the link target indicated at the end of the line), and "-" is a regular file. I trimmed what I sent earlier to focus only on testing and wheezy and they're relationship with each other. The full listing is a bit more complex. :-) -- Chris
