On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 06:44:29PM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > One option would be to say that "woody" represents the distribution, > and then I specify the component holding the postfix file as a path: > > 1. deb http://people.debian/org/~hmh woody /hmh/postfix > > But perhaps since it is a path, it should end in a slash: > > 2. deb http://people.debian/org/~hmh woody /hmh/postfix/
Using a separate distribution like this only works if "woody" in the URL is preceded by "dists", as it is in the main Debian archive. > Or perhaps I should specify the complete path to the desired file: > > 3. deb http://people.debian/org/~hmh/woody/hmh/postfix/ > > the manual says to append the slash, but perhaps not: > > 4. deb http://people.debian/org/~hmh/woody/hmh/postfix Add " ./" to either of those and it should work fine. > The only one which allows the update is: > > deb http://people.debian.org/~hmh/woody/ hmh/postfix/ That would work too. > but apt-get install fails to see the package: > > $ sudo apt-get install postfix=2.0 That's because the version is not "2.0", nor "2.0.16". It's "2.0.16-4.woody.1", or any of the others there. You can't leave bits off the end of the version number (and even if you could the syntax for doing so probably wouldn't be "="). Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
