Re: deleting binary soft link on ftp sites

1997-06-05 Thread James R. Van Zandt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > In anticipation of Debian being released (publically)for platforms > other than ix86 it would be a good idea to phase out the use of > the binary -> binary-i386 link on the ftp sites as this could > cause confusion. Is there anything that actually uses this link? I do

Re: deleting binary soft link on ftp sites

1997-06-04 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- About the link binary -> binary-i386: On Wed, 4 Jun 1997, Charles Briscoe-Smith wrote: > >Very old versions of dselect use it. It's meant for backwards > >compatibility. > > Are these the same versions which have problems with Packages files > with epochs in

Re: deleting binary soft link on ftp sites

1997-06-04 Thread Charles Briscoe-Smith
Guy Maor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >> In anticipation of Debian being released (publically)for platforms >> other than ix86 it would be a good idea to phase out the use of >> the binary -> binary-i386 link on the ftp sites as this could >> cause confusion. Is there an

Re: deleting binary soft link on ftp sites

1997-06-02 Thread Guy Maor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > In anticipation of Debian being released (publically)for platforms > other than ix86 it would be a good idea to phase out the use of > the binary -> binary-i386 link on the ftp sites as this could > cause confusion. Is there anything that actually uses this link? Very