Recently Tim Sailer mentioned that the mysql package is in hamm. When I ran dselect from ftp.debian.org using the ftp method I did not see any trace of it. I then looked a bit more closely and discovered that it was in hamm/non-free.
If I want to see the development versions of the non-free packages listed in dselect instead of the stable versions what do I specify for the debian directory and for the list of distributions? I tried a couple of combinations such as the one below but with no joy. Either a Packages file is not available or the name under which a package is being selected is off by one directory. I enclose a sample run. BTW, since this is an important piece of software for the Debian release I will take the liberty of suggesting a spelling correction in this output. It should be "space separated", not "space seperated". Some (human) editors would even insist upon "space-separated list" but that may be getting too pedantic. Enter debian directory [/debian/hamm]: /debian Note: order here is important. Package files are scanned in order so later distributions will override earlier ones. So put stable before unstable. Enter space seperated list of distributions to get [non-free contrib hamm]: hamm Enter directory to download binary package files to (relative to /var/lib/dpkg/methods/ftp/) [debian]: Using FTP to check directories...(stop with ^C) Connecting to ftp.debian.org... Login as anonymous... Setting transfer mode to binary... Cd to /debian... Checking hamm/binary-i386... Warning: Couldn't find a Packages file in hamm/binary-i386 This may not be a problem if the directory is a symbolic link Closing ftp connection... press return to continue -- Douglas Bates [EMAIL PROTECTED] Statistics Department 608/262-2598 University of Wisconsin - Madison http://www.stat.wisc.edu/~bates/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
