Hi there Ben Collins and Jason Gunthorpe have helped me work out how to run apt to FTP debs from unusual places. Thanks guys! I'm an old Unix hand, but way too new to Debian to figure this out.
Reading the documentation made me wonder: (1) Is the required format for such targets defined, exemplified, or documented anywhere? (2) What is the deal with the TYPE field in apt.conf, sseing as how only deb and deb-src types seem to be defined? - Brian