Re: dselect issues

[Goswin Brederlow <goswin.brederlow@student.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Rob Byrnes <robbyrnes@ozemail.com.au> writes:

> While not specifically Alpha, my question is specifically Debian :)
> 
> When installing, I specified some FTP servers for deslect/apt to get
> updated files, as the CD's I have are test-cycle-2.
> 
> 
> My problem now is that dselect _always_ gets the files from the FTP
> server, rather than from the CD-ROM.  Is there a way around this?

apt will allwas fetch the newest and of them the first packages. So
because your test-cycle-2 is way out of date it will never (or hardly
ever) use any packages from it.

MfG
        Goswin