Re: How does JIGDO fetch the debian packages?

[Richard Atterer <deb-cd@list02.atterer.net>]

On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 11:48:03PM -0400, Abdul Latip wrote:
> May I know how JIGDO fetch the debian packages?

It uses wget.

> Does JIGDO understand /etc/apt/preferences ?

No. The only thing it does is to fetch the selected Debian mirror from
/etc/apt/sources.list, if present. I don't think jigdo will help you
with your problem.

[snip]
> - Currently, I am using a simple shell script like this following.
>   The problem is that it does not understand "/etc/apt/preferences"

What's the problem - what aspect of the preferences file do you need?

Cheers,

  Richard

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