Re: dists/proposed-updates and apt

[Remco van de Meent <remco@debian.org>]

Piotr Roszatycki wrote:
> I love apt, but are some problem with proposed-updates and this tool.
> I resolve this problem by creating symlink 
> ln -s . binary-i386 
> in dists/proposed-updates directory, and another
> ln -s ../proposed-updades updates
> in dists/stable directory
> 
> my apt/sources.list :
> 
> deb ftp://ftp.fnet.pl/pub/debian stable main contrib non-free non-US updates
> 
> I think main ftp site should have apt support for updates.

It has - the following is syntactically correct in sources.list:

       deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian dists/slink-proposed-updates/

And it works :-)


Regards,
 -Remco