A suggestion for further improving quality of boot-floppies; Friend of mine had "trouble" with 3.0.16-2001-10-24 idepci flavour from people.debian.org/~aph. I think it is probably debootstrap that can be "fixed".
The case is if you enter the wrong URL for downloading base, it attempts to get the Release file, which results in a 404. Which gets stored in /var/lib/apt/whatever... not sure where. Then he enters the right URL, but this file has already been downloaded. Simply deleting the file by hand from another terminal solved the issues. I could suggest deleting the file automatically if it is a 404, or something along those lines, deleting it if it is faulty, maybe letting the user know and all... but the main issue and probably the right way to solve it is to redownload the Release file each time the user ... changes the address to download it from. Redownloading the file absolutely every time is probably intentionally not done? Hugo van der Merwe ps, I do not subscribe to this list, please CC me a reply, even if it is one of: - "we hear you, will look into it" - "right, we hear you but don't care" - "go report a bug against debootstrap" - "go report a bug against boot-floppies" - "go away" Gives me an idea if I must take this further/elsewhere <g> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
