Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Holger Levsen] >> in etch, Debian Edu only has a "local" category, while Debian >> has "main", "contrib" and "non-free". (Actually, they are not part of Debian >> but Debian provides infrastructure. Anyway...) >> >> For lenny, I propose we do the same for our lenny (and lenny-test). (And >> keep >> etch as it is.) >> >> What do you think? > > The use of 'local' was forced on us by debian-cd, which refused to add > extra packages that were not in the 'local' category. If this > limitation is no longer present, I am all for using more sensible > categories. And if the limitation is still there, I hope someone can > get rid of it. :) > > I would actually recommend it is left for lenny+1, as there are plenty > of work to do and no need to fix what isn't broken at the moment. :) > >> P.S.: This was triggered by the notion that there is no >> flashplugin-nonfree package in lenny, nor planned for bpo nor >> volatile (afaik). So I was thinking of uploading it to our repo, but >> I didnt (and dont) like the idea of putting packages not suited for >> Debian main into our main (heh!) repo. > > Well, if debian-cd is still silly, I recommend you get used to the > idea. I had to, after spending weeks and weeks trying to get the CD > building back in the woody days with a local 'main' category. :) > > Hapy hacking,
local is still hardcoded many places in debian-cd. afraid we have to live with it untill we are 100% assimilated Ronny -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
