RE: Using dselect and unstable packages

[Ian & Gill Watkins <ianw@cyber.net.pk>]

Great, thanks. Worked like a charm. Went and got the Packages files, ran DSELECT and had 55M of files to get!!! Whoops! I had to take them out again to get any sense back into DSELECT.

Would you expect this to happen or did I do something wrong??

Thanks for your help.

Ian W


On Sun, Jan 11, 1998 at 09:15:31PM +0500, Ian & Gill Watkins wrote:
> Can you use dselect and the unstable packages vis FTP. If so how?

Yes. Use an FTP site that carries unstable, and configure dpkg-ftp (through
"[A]ccess") to use the directories "dists/unstable/main",
"dists/unstable/contrib" and "dists/unstable/non-free".

HTH,
Ray
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