Luis Villa wrote: > On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > > > Mitch Blevins wrote: > > > > > In foo.debian-user, you wrote: > > > > On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Mitch Blevins wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Try http://non-us.debian.org/debian as the URL. > > > > > > > > > > > > > Thanks, Mitch. It works, and I happily have ssh. I'm still curious, > > > > though: why is non-US called a distribution in apt, when it is in fact > > > > a > > > > component? Is this historical or what? > > > > > > I don't really know, Luis. It seems confusing to me, and picking it > > > from the distribution menu in dselect (apt-method) would create a > > > wrong sources.list line, if I grok the directory layout correctly. > > > > > > But I've been wrong before (once or twice). > > > You may want to ask this question on debian-devel, or file a bug against > > > dselect if you think it is really a bug. I never really used dselect > > > to build a sources.list line (until just now), so I never noticed this > > > before. Maybe there is a good reason for it. *shrugs* > > > > Hmmm, I'm not sure where you guys are coming from. I use: > > http://conan.eecg.toronto.edu/debian-non-US as the site, slink as the > > distribution, > > and non-US as the component and it works just dandy. I'm guessing the above > > which you > > guys are using works because of symlinks. > > Jens- > I am basically doing what you are doing. I use stable instead of > slink, but other than that the same. The trick is that dselect tells me > to do something different, which doesn't work! Dselect "suggests" that you > use non-US as the distribution, instead of stable, slink, or something > else. There is no mention of non-US in the suggested lists of components. > -Luis
Oops. Sorry to add redundant information. I haven't used the dselect method to set apt sources in a long time because you have to reenter each one (I guess that was part of the whole point). -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
