Re: debian-powerpc: I can't find pmud
Sven LUTHER wrote:
>
> On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 10:28:28PM +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> > > I tried searching packages at http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages. I
> > > entered "pmud" and chose options of distriubution=any and section=any.
> > > There was nothing found. I think the search engine is broken.
> >
> > That's hardly surprising. The search engine has been broken (for $Arch !=
> > i386) from Day 1. Only recently have some feeble attempts been made to fix
> > it.
> >
> > I prefer searching the ftp directories (or the Packages files) directly
> > any day. (And I prefer downloading a package from unstable manually to
> > install it by dpkg to mucking with sources.list only temporarily any day
> > as well.)
>
> But since package pools and the advent of testing, are ftp directories
> considered fiable ?
>
> i have, in the early days of testing, been trying to track if my packages
> had made it to testing, not finding them under
> ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/testing, but being told that they are in testing
> by someone who just had apt pointing on testing and upgraded.
Just use madison <package> on ftp-master.
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Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper) \ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
CS student, Free Software enthusiast \ XFree86 and DRI project member
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