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- <li><em>date</em>: Sat Jun 4 19:35:10 2005</li>
- <li><em>from</em>: jimpop at yahoo.com (Jim Popovitch)</li>
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I still think that you are thinking of that directory as being part of
the Debian Testing release, not just testing/playing/hacking, etc. The
fact that all the files share the same date suggest to me that it is
"testing" as in hacking, rather than "Testing" as in a release version.
-Jim P.
>
> 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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