Matthew Dalton wrote: > Uhh.... simlink stable to slink? > > cd to the debian directory and type: > ln -s slink stable
Nice try. $ ls -l total 1 dr-xr-xr-x 4 root root 1024 Dec 6 21:56 slink lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Dec 6 21:56 stable -> slink OK so let's try with "stable" -------- fennywood:# apt-get update Err file:/data/slink1/debian/ stable/main Packages File not found Ign file:/data/slink1/debian/ stable/main Release Err file:/data/slink1/debian/ stable/contrib Packages File not found Ign file:/data/slink1/debian/ stable/contrib Release Ign file:/data/slink2/debian/ stable/main Release Ign file:/data/slink2/debian/ stable/contrib Release Failed to fetch file:/data/slink1/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-i386/Packages File not found Failed to fetch file:/data/slink1/debian/dists/stable/contrib/binary-i386/Packages File not found Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done W: Couldn't stat source package list 'file:/data/slink1/debian/ stable/main Packages' (/var/state/apt/lists/data_slink1_debian_dists_stable_main_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: Couldn't stat source package list 'file:/data/slink1/debian/ stable/contrib Packages' (/var/state/apt/lists/data_slink1_debian_dists_stable_contrib_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these missing files E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead. ----------- So I change it to slink. Nice neat update, no mess like above, but when I select a package it complains "stable" is inaccessible. Now, watch this for some weirdness: ----------- fennywood:# ls /data/slink1/debian/dists/stable/contrib/binary-i386/Packages ls: /data/slink1/debian/dists/stable/contrib/binary-i386/Packages: No such file or directory fennywood:# ls /data/slink1/debian/dists/slink/contrib/binary-i386/Packages /data/slink1/debian/dists/slink/contrib/binary-i386/Packages ----------- What's going on? When is a symlink not a symlink? > Jonathan Markevich wrote: > > > > I got a large hard drive and it would be well worth copying the Slink > > CDs to a location on one partition. My question is how I can set up my > > sources.list. I tried this... > > > > deb file:/data/slink1/debian slink main contrib > > deb file:/data/slink2/debian slink main contrib > > > > but it complains about stable not being available. If I replace slink > > with stable, it complains slink is not available. Any ideas, or is > > there something else I need to do? -- Jonathan Markevich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://members.xoom.com/JMarkevich
