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Re: Broken repository? Or am I missing something?



On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 05:41:16PM -0500, Graham Wilson wrote:
> > deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/project/experimental/main/binary-i386/ \
> > ./ 
> > 
> > Is the repository broke or am I doing something wrong?
> 
> the latter. the entry should be either:
> 
>  deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/ ../project/experimental main
> 
> or:
> 
>  deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/ project/experimental/main/binary-$(ARCH)/

You may also want to pin experimental a little higher in the priority
scheme so that packages from experimental will override packages in
unstable (esound, for example..)  To do this, put these lines in
/etc/apt/preferences:

Package: *
Pin: release a=experimental
Pin-Priority: 1000


This pulls in a few other experimental packages, but so far I've not had
any problems with the experimental PAM, diff, etc.


> If the designers of X-Windows built cars, there would be no fewer than
> five steering wheels hidden about the cockpit, none of which followed
> the same principles -- but you'd be able to shift gears with your car
> stereo. Useful feature, that.
> 
> -- Marus J. Ranum, Digital Equipment Corporation

I believe 'im too.

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