On 20120129_090739, Christofer C. Bell wrote: ... snip > > There is no difference, at all, between Wheezy and Testing -- They are the > same physical thing on the Debian repository server's hard disk. Testing > is nothing more than a symlink to Wheezy. When updates go into Testing, ----------------------- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I have always been confused about the symlink. Once upon a time, I was convinced that each release name, like Wheezy, was a symlink to testing and doing a release involved moving all the files into the directory for stable and switching the Wheezy symlink to point to stable. This is also what the Debian article in Wikipedia seems to say. But ... having testing be the symlnk is, to my mind, a much more reasonable way to implement the package database and your statement may well be the correct, up-to-date description of how things are done, Do you know, from observation of the internals of Debian that it is the way you say. I think there is documentation still available on the web that is confusing on this issue. IMHO, it should be the way you say, but Wikipedia says otherwise, and should be corrected.
> they're actually being put into a directory named Wheezy. ------------------------------------^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > Unfortunately, Debian lives in a real world replete with uninformed opinion. I'm hoping that you can offer some assurance that your statement is fact, because I really like what you say. What can you say to reassure me? -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120129193232.gd5...@big.lan.gnu
