Re: Using apt-get to upgrade to slink
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
Try the file:/ syntax.
deb file:/usr/local/mirror/debian slink main contrib non-free non-US
> but is there any way to get it to prompt me for a username or
> password? The man page for sources.list says that the ftp method is
> highly configurable and to see the ftp.conf(5) man page. Trouble is
> that man page didn't seem to get installed on my hamm system, even
> after installing apt from slink?
Apt is only 0.1.6. Thats nowhere near 1.0. Sure it should be there, but it
still in the development stages....
Michael Beattie (mickyb@es.co.nz)
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