On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 03:48:49PM +0200, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > * Jérémy Bobbio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080625 15:29]: > > Doing this result in a Release file containing (indeed): > > Codename: etch/updates > > Components: main > > > > This diverges slightly from Release files in security or volatile > > repositories: > > Codename: etch > > Components: updates/main updates/contrib updates/non-free > > security layout is from before apt as far as I know, and apt when I > last looked has some dirty workaround because of that. Perhaps > apt invented some new sheme so security fits into this, though.
Well… the workarounds might be dirty, but are now also used for volatile
updates.
> > Limited to conf/distributions, it is not really a problem, but when
> > adding updates it gets hard to have a correct configuration,
>
> Well, in apt/sources.list the distribution you usually put is
> etch/updates and the codename in main. Bending this forward and backward
> till it fits seems a bit strange.
True. I had not thought about that.
> > and this tends to trigger APT warnings for codename mismatch.
>
> Hm, that must have changed (though already some time ago).
> Looks like apt was changed to the inconsistent naming of security instead
> of the other way around... Sigh...
Well… feel free to tag the bug as wishlist or just close it by adding
some documentation.
Many thanks for your help. :)
Cheers,
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Jérémy Bobbio .''`.
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