This one time, at band camp, Tim Verry said: > I think I've read the usual docs on sources.list. But I still don't get it. > Everytime I put something in there by hand it searches all kinds of places > under the main url that I find unpredictable. 3/4 times now it did not find > the file I was trying to point it at. > > If there is a .deb file somewhere, anywhere, and I want to point dselect at > it, what do I put in the sources.list file? Is there some kind of agreed > upon directory structure? I thought options were equivalent to dir names > but that doesn't seem to be the case. It seems to really look around, but > what exactly is it looking for to tell it what is there, the dependencies > etc? You don't point sources.list at the actual .deb, you point it to the directory containing Packages.gz (or Sources.gz, depending). So, I have this in my sources.list: deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free The actual packages.list is at: http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz You can use things like ./ or ../ if the directory structure isn't what apt normally expects, so: deb ftp://download.uk.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/3.0.4/Debian/sid ./ is: ftp://download.uk.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/3.0.4/Debian/sid/Packages.gz (note this is missing the usual main/binary$ARCH/ subdirectory) and: deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ ../project/experimental main is: http://http.us.debian.org/debian/project/experimental/main/binaryi386/Packages.gz (and this doesn't have the break for dists) You can go from there. I could proably be more clear, but it's getting late here (^: -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | Macho does not prove mucho. -- Zsa | | steve@lobefin.net | Zsa Gabor | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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