Hi, On Sat, 25 Nov 2000 16:56:08 +0100 (CET) Santiago Vila wrote: > > Q. Why does the official CD-ROM contain symlinks for frozen and > unstable? I thought potato was already stable! > > A. Because the CD creation team is paranoid and didn't bother to check > that "stable" is actually enough.
How about: -------------------------------------------------------------------- Q. Why does the official stable released CD-ROM contain symlinks for frozen and unstable? I thought this CD contains just "stable"! A. Official Debian CD images indeed contain symlinks like: /dists/frozen -> sarge/ /dists/stable -> sarge/ /dists/testing -> sarge/ /dists/unstable -> sarge/ so that they work when your sources.list has an entry like deb cdrom:[<name as on cd label>]/ unstable main [...] . The fact these symlinks are present does _not_ mean the image is "unstable" or "testing" or anything. Read the CD label in /.disk/info to find out which Debian version it contains. This information is also present in /README.txt on the CD. Read http://www.debian.org/releases/ to find out what the current "stable" and "testing" releases are. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Probably this question should get inserted just after "2.4 How do I install the Debian from CD-ROMs?" I'll commit this to the FAQ soonish (unless someone tells me not to), and close the bug. Bye, Joost
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