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Re: ftp dir request



> 
> On Sat, Mar 13, 1999 at 12:32:56PM -0500, shaleh@clifford.livenet.net wrote:
> > When an old dist needs updates, there is an updates dir for it.  If the dist
> > is updated (rN > 1), you just point dselect/apt at it and whamo, new packages.
> > 
> > What are we not doing that you would like?
> 
> I'm trying to think of a compromise between the delete-everything
> approach and the requirements of keeping the mirror size down. My
> thought is that someone could put slink-updates in their apt path, and
> it would be valid now, as well as after potato is released. 
> 

put a packages file in the directory, link it under dists, apt will see it,
should not be hard.


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