As a first step toward handling this sanely, I have converted everything
to use symbolic distribution names in mirror/distribution.
base-installer converts these to code names for debootstrap, currently
using a ugly lookup table, that can later be replaced with release file
retrieval and parsing.
On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 10:24:54PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> > (A nice UI might be something like:
> > cando=""
> > for x in oldstable stable testing unstable; do
> > cn=$(wget -q -O - $MIRROR/dists/$x/Release | sed -n 's/^Codename: //p')
> > if [ "$cn" -a -e "/usr/lib/debootstrap/scrip
Anthony Towns wrote:
> > Surely all suites that are currently referred to by testing, unstable,
> > and stable have release files and will continue to have them for the
> > forseeable future.
>
> The forseeable future doesn't even extend to the next release...
>
> Putting it in debootstrap makes
I wrote:
> It would probably work something like this: If debootstrap is told to
> use a suite that it does not have a script for, try calling
> download_release_indices. If that is able to download a release file for
> the suite, look for the codename. If there is a script for the codename,
> then
On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 12:19:03PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> Anthony Towns wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 01:08:24AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> > > It seems to me that since debootstrap already knows how to download
> > > dists/$SUITE/Release, and in fact does so, it would be best to make it
> >
Anthony Towns wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 01:08:24AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> > It seems to me that since debootstrap already knows how to download
> > dists/$SUITE/Release, and in fact does so, it would be best to make it
> > download them and use them to map to release code names.
>
> debo
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 01:08:24AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> It seems to me that since debootstrap already knows how to download
> dists/$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.
debootstrap only knows to download th
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?
>
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.o
Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Joey Hess]
> > Please can't we change this to use symbolic release names?
>
> Check that it work with CD installs first. I remember some problems
> with missing symlinks and / or debootstrap only understanding the code
> names. I am not sure if this template is the
[Joey Hess]
> Please can't we change this to use symbolic release names?
Check that it work with CD installs first. I remember some problems
with missing symlinks and / or debootstrap only understanding the code
names. I am not sure if this template is the one used by the
retrievers nor base-ins
Quoting Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Please can't we change this to use symbolic release names?
Seconded. I went to this topic while working on the templates. I wanted
supposed to raise this subject last weekbut the compromise of
Debian servers (and for myself, the creation of a new GPG k
Am Mon, den 01.12.2003 schrieb Joey Hess um 06:33:
> Please can't we change this to use symbolic release names?
Seconded.
gaudenz
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