Jason, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, Daniel Barclay wrote: > > > The installation phase of APT breaks if it doesn't > > recognize the distribution designator. It seems to > > revert to "stable" instead of what was specified. > > This is a side effect of how the archive is organized, it is not a bug. > The paths to the .deb files are given explictly in the index file, so no > matter what name you use to refer to the index files their idea of the > archive structure will be used.
Do you mean that if I download the hamm archive, wait until slink is stable, download it, and then want to install hamm, I have to rename my hamm directory to "stable" before I can use APT? Why does the Filename field in the Package files contain the "dist/stable" part? (That is, why do the Package files refer to their own location?) There's a bug in the design somewhere if one can't store a Debian release in a directory with name more constant than "stable" (with denotes different release at different times). Do I need to rename my directory to something like ".../hamm/dists/stable/..."? (That's pretty redundant, especially considering that it already has "dists" in it (.../mirror/debian/dists/hamm/...).) Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hmm. A little worrisome: http://www.anonymizer.com/snoop.cgi )
