> From: "Lewis, James M." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

> > Because it doesn't work for local mirrors. 


> Actually, it does work IF
> you make a link called frozen that points to potato.
> Remove the link before running the rsync (or whatever)
> and replace it afterwards.  When potato becomes stable,
> you have to make the link "stable".  The names are changed
> in Packages file when they do this.  As an alternate way,
> edit the Packages file and change frozen with potato...
> 
> maybe it could be better but it does work as long as you
> know what's going on.

Why should users have to work around all that crap?

Why can't Debian fix the damn problem (the bad design)?


Daniel
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