On Tue, 15 Jul 1997, Christopher Ray Martin wrote:
> > I'm trying to get my girlfriend's Debian machine updated to 1.3 but so far > its been a real pain because she is behind a corporate firewall and I have > to manually ftp the files. Is there any way to configure deselect to go > through the firewall? > When I first started with Debian many moons ago, I had the same problem. My only fast net access was at work behind a formidable firewall. After tediously working my way through a couple of hundred packages (Thank God it wasn't the 1000+ of today!) I thought there had to be a better way. So I wrote an http method for dselect. I actually used lynx to do the transfer because you can specify a proxy configuration in its setup. It did work but it wasn't very polished. With Deity on its way and CDs going for as little as $3.99, there is probably not much point but if people think it could be useful, I don't mind starting work on it again. -- Jaldhar -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
