On Sat, Dec 8, 2018 at 1:25 AM Paul Wise <p...@debian.org> wrote: > > If you had apt available to you, I think it could be made to do some > parts of this for you based solely on the sources.list file.
Having apt available is not the case. We want people using/installing Debian from any other distro! > > The other thing is that we generally don't expose the files you are > looking at to users, we generally recommend folks use the netinst ISO, > which is on another server altogether: > > https://www.debian.org/ > https://www.debian.org/distrib/ > https://www.debian.org/CD/ > https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/iso-cd/debian-9.6.0-amd64-netinst.iso Understood. So, I guess the best question would be: Would you (as Debian Community) be willing to expose that? If so, would be possible, for future releases, to have the ".treeinfo" file (or *anything* that we could match as *this* *specific* *version*, including testing)? Best Regards, -- Fabiano Fidêncio
