Re: apt sources line

1999-05-15 Thread Dietmar Schultz
On Sun, 25 Apr 1999, Mark Wagnon wrote: > > Then you need a sources.list line of > > deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists proposed-updates/ > when apt-get tried to download them I got some error messages telling me > that the files weren't plain files (or something to that effect). > > What does

Re: apt sources line

1999-04-25 Thread Mark Wagnon
Brian Servis wrote: > > Then you need a sources.list line of > > deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists proposed-updates/ > > And yes it will sort out which are i386, sparc, etc. In fact, if you > look at the list in dselect it won't even show the architecture field. > > -- > Brian Thanks. I a

Re: apt sources line

1999-04-25 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 25 Apr, Mark Wagnon wrote about "Re: apt sources line" > George Bonser wrote: >> >> Ok, so what is the line to pick up the slink-proposed-updates packages? >> > > I dunno. I checked out > ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/proposed-updates/. Ther

Re: apt sources line

1999-04-25 Thread Mark Wagnon
George Bonser wrote: > > Ok, so what is the line to pick up the slink-proposed-updates packages? > I dunno. I checked out ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/proposed-updates/. There is a packages file in that directory, but there are debs for all the architectures there too. Will apt-get be able

Re: apt sources line

1999-04-25 Thread Mark Wagnon
Ken Scott wrote: > > Hello, > > What's the preferred line in the apt sources.list file so that I can use apt > to upgrade from slink to potato? > > Thanks, > Ken I think it would be almost the same as the default, with the exception that the reference to stable would be switched to unstable lik