Re: Apt 0.3 lost ftp-method ???
According to Bob Nielsen <nielsen@primenet.com>:
>
> gnome-apt requires apt ver. 0.3, which does not (yet) support the ftp
> method. Your options are to use the http method or to downgrade to an
> older version of apt. The http method works very well and the number of
> sites which support it is increasing.
Thanks for the hint.
You are right, substituting ftp by http worked...almost. There seems
to be a problem with the non-US part. Here is what I get to see:
~# apt-get update
Get:1 http://ftp.debian.org dists/proposed-updates/ Packages [313]
Get:2 http://ftp.debian.org dists/proposed-updates/ Release [153]
Hit http://www.debian.org ./ Packages
Hit http://www.debian.org ./ Release
Get:3 http://ftp.de.debian.org slink/main Packages [490k]
Get:4 http://ftp.de.debian.org slink/main Release [93]
Get:5 http://ftp.de.debian.org slink/non-free Packages [70.3k]
Get:6 http://ftp.de.debian.org slink/non-free Release [97]
Get:7 http://ftp.de.debian.org slink/non-US Packages [9101]
Err http://ftp.de.debian.org slink/non-US Release
404 Not Found
Get:8 http://ftp.de.debian.org slink/contrib Packages [23.3k]
Get:9 http://ftp.de.debian.org slink/contrib Release [96]
Fetched 594k in 2m14s (4404/s)
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
And here is the contents of my sources.list:
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian slink main non-free non-US contrib
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian dists/proposed-updates/
deb http://www.debian.org/~mblevin/gnome-apt ./
Why does the http method need the "Release" file? And why is the one
for the non-US part missing? Should I file a bug report?
Thanks again,
Andy.
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