Re: Using apt-get to upgrade to slink

[dsb3 <dsb3@earthlink.net>]

On 19 Sep 1998, Gary L. Hennigan wrote:

>I'm thinking about making the upgrade to slink since it has a couple
>of additions I'd like to try. After hearing all the great things about
>apt-get I thought I'd give it a try. I have a local mirror of the
>Debian ftp site and I'm having trouble figuring out how to modify
>sources.list to point to it. The trick is that my mirror isn't on an
>anonymous ftp server, I have to log in to it with my username and
>password. How can I make apt-get use these when it attempts the ftp?
>I think I want something along the lines of:
>
>deb ftp://my.local.machine/usr/local/mirror/debian slink main contrib non-free non-US
>

typically if you need to specify username/password in a URL you'll use the
form:

ftp://username:password@machine/path/file

let us know if this works for me.

- dave

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