Re: [sanvila@unex.es: Bug#68477: apt-cdrom confused by symlinks.]

[Santiago Vila]

On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, J.A. Bezemer wrote:

> On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, Santiago Vila wrote:
> 
> > > There's no way for debian-cd to know all this, unless the user tells it.
> > 
> > I don't think this is true. If you need a ftp.debian.org mirror to
> > make CDs, debian-cd may well respect whatever symlink is currently
> > present on the mirror, unless this is overriden by a user who knows
> > what he is doing, of course, so what's wrong with respecting
> > ftp.debian.org defaults?
> 
> I suspect a rather large number of CDs is being generated from private mirrors
> that only mirror potato/ and don't have symlinks at all. This would break
> debian-cd if no special precautions were made. And the detection of "what is
> symlinking to <dir>" would already be complicated enough to do correctly.

So the user is clever enough to do a partial mirror, but it is stupid
enough to tell debian-cd the state of potato, be it frozen, stable or
unstable. I don't buy this.


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