On Friday, May 31, 2002, at 06:52 AM, Michael Stone wrote:
> On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 08:54:20PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: >> Matt Kraai wrote: >>> * base-config sets the default value of apt-setup/distribution >>> to the value of SUITE, but >>> * its possible values are stable, testing, and unstable, so it >>> falls back to the old default, stable. >>> >>> Joey, is this correct? If so, what (if anything) can be done? >> >> Yes that's right, and nothing at this time. > > Why can't "woody" just be a valid setting? > "woody" should never be a valid setting, in my opinion. "unstable", "testing" or "frozen" yes, but never the distro codename. But the question is: How to change it from 'stable' to the snapshot of choice, automagically? I'm almost positive that it's probably almost impossible. The best we could hope for is a fancy little addition to the code in the dbootstrap (I think that's right), perhaps right near the beginning that allows a choice of which flavour you want to install, and then perform a variable-substitution the rest of the way through. I'm not saying that it would be overly pretty, or easy to do (ie: I can't do it!) but I'm sure if you wanted to do this little improvement and submit a patch to the appropriate maintainer........who knows. Anywho, just thinking out loud here. --JM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
