Re: Using apt-get to upgrade to slink

[glhenni@cs.sandia.gov (Gary L. Hennigan)]

dsb3 <dsb3@earthlink.net> writes:
| 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.

Thanks Dave.

It does indeed work!

Gary