On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 02:01:31PM +0200, Frodo Baggins wrote: > Hi debianers, > In the dist/proposed-updates directory there is a README file stating > [snip] > > You can access this directory with apt by adding > deb http://ftp1.us.debian.org/debian dists/proposed-updates/ > to your /etc/apt/sources.list > > Well, I done it but apt complais about a "Malformed line" in the > /etc/apt/sources.list file, precisely the one above. Looking into the >
are you sure you have that trailing / after dists/proposed-updates ? it has to be there for apt to accept it. > doc, I found that there should be the components to download such as > main contrib.. I tried to add something like main, but the it > complains it can find > http://ftp1.us.debian.org/debian/dists/proposed-updates/main/binary-i386/Packages > file... Aparently, directory proposed-updates is structured > differently from potato/main: files belonging to different > architectures are differenciated by their suffix instead to be found > into separate subdirectories. The question is: how do I do to have apt > looking into proposed-updates? Thanks a lot yes proposed-updates is a flat namespace, not seperated into archecture or section. the above line is correct, (I just tested it) make sure you have that trailing / i bet that is the problem. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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