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- <li><em>date</em>: Sat Jun 4 17:36:08 2005</li>
- <li><em>from</em>: james.sumners at gmail.com (James Sumners)</li>
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On 6/4/05, Jim Popovitch <jimpop at yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-06-04 at 13:22 -0400, James Sumners wrote:
> > I won't even begin speculating on that one. Someone was probably just
> > building it for, erm, testing purposes.
>
> You are probably correct. However, that just shows you the craziness
> associated with having a version named "Testing" ;-) I do fully
> understand the Debian distro, I just easily see all the things that
> frustrate people and keep a sizable number from jumping on board.
>
> One other thing.... so, if the contents of that directory was for
> "testing purposes" what integrity is associated with the ISOs contained
> therein? Raylynn posted those URLs, surely with good intentions, but
> the reality is those ISOs could contain wild/mild/broken things. Who
> really knows? At least with RH (and presumably Suse, etc) you do see
> very clean crisp archive structures, and verify file integrity across
> mirrors is never a problem.
>
> -Jim P.
>
> >
> > On 6/4/05, Jim Popovitch <jimpop at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > On Sat, 2005-06-04 at 13:06 -0400, James Sumners wrote:
> > > > Sid will never be stable.
> > > > It will always be unstable. Woody is the
> > > > current stable, Sarge is the upcoming stable, and Etch will be the
> > > > next testing. Sid will remain unstable.
> > >
> > > My mistake (although one could say this is yet another Debian nuance),
> > > Still what is Unstable doing in a cdimage-testing dir? One would think
> > > that cdimage-testing/ is where the Testing version is.
> > >
> > > -Jim P.
> > >
> > > > On 6/4/05, Jim Popovitch <jimpop at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > > > On Sat, 2005-06-04 at 03:54 -0400, Raylynn Knight wrote:
> > > > > > On Fri, 2005-06-03 at 20:41 -0400, James Sumners wrote:
> > > > > > > If you find a pre-built Sparc image I would be surprised. The last
> > > > > > > time I decided to play around and (try to) install Debian on a Sparc I
> > > > > > > had to use a full CD.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > Sarge image is available at
> > > > > > <a rel="nofollow" href="http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sarge_d-i/sparc/rc3/sarge-sparc-netinst.iso";>http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sarge_d-i/sparc/rc3/sarge-sparc-netinst.iso</a>
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks Raylynn,
> > > > >
> > > > > This shows some of the more interesting aspects of using Debian.
> > > > > Currently "Testing" is Sarge. So one would expect to find
> > > > > sarge-sparc-netinst.iso in a cdimage-testing directory. Also in that
> > > > > cdimage-testing directory is a current(?) archive of Sid (Stable).
> > > > > What's that doing in a cdrom-testing directory? And why is Sid dated
> > > > > 03-Jun-2005?
> > > > >
> > > > > I guess my point is this: With Debian, things just aren't always clear
> > > > > and well explained. ;-)
> > > > >
> > > > > -Jim P.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
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"All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts
pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it
is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become
drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted."
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