Re: Debian archive kde-3.1-beta2 paths broken
On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 06:27:42PM +0900, Julian Stoev wrote:
> Just to let you know, that the archive paths for kde-3.1-beta2 Debian
> packages are broken and the archive can not be used with apt in Debian.
> Or at least I can not figure how to use it... :(
>
> For examle currently the path (in one mirror) to the archive is
> http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/packages/desktops/kde/unstable/kde-3.1-beta2/Debian/woody/i386/
>
> But according to the paths found in
> http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/packages/desktops/kde/unstable/kde-3.1-beta2/Debian/woody/i386/Packages.gz
> the packages are expected to be in
> http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/packages/desktops/kde/unstable/kde-3.1-beta2/Debian/dists/woody/main/binary-i386/
>
> I suggest a symbolic link from Debian/woody/i386 to
> dists/woody/main/binary-i386/
>
> This will be fast solution, which will propagate in seconds if you
> mirror with rsync.
>
Ralf, could you do this please? Or
sed -e 's!dists/woody/main/binary-i386/!woody/i386/!' < Packages.old >
Packages
gzip Packages
and upload the file?
This should work imho, but the symlink approach seems better to me
anyway. Thanks.
>
> Good luck and thanks for the packages!
>
Sorry for the inconvenience. I have no write access to ftp.kde.org, so
everything takes bit more time. I will try to make things work out of
the box next time :).
>
> --JS
>
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