Re: APT setup (was: Re: An idea...)

[Luis Villa <liv@duke.edu>]

On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:

> Mitch Blevins wrote:
> 
> > In foo.debian-user, you wrote:
> > > On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Mitch Blevins wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Try http://non-us.debian.org/debian as the URL.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Thanks, Mitch. It works, and I happily have ssh. I'm still curious,
> > > though:  why is non-US called a distribution in apt, when it is in fact a
> > > component? Is this historical or what?
> >
> > I don't really know, Luis.  It seems confusing to me, and picking it
> > from the distribution menu in dselect (apt-method) would create a
> > wrong sources.list line, if I grok the directory layout correctly.
> >
> > But I've been wrong before (once or twice).
> > You may want to ask this question on debian-devel, or file a bug against
> > dselect if you think it is really a bug.  I never really used dselect
> > to build a sources.list line (until just now), so I never noticed this
> > before.  Maybe there is a good reason for it. *shrugs*
> 
> Hmmm, I'm not sure where you guys are coming from. I use:
> http://conan.eecg.toronto.edu/debian-non-US as the site, slink as the distribution,
> and non-US as the component and it works just dandy. I'm guessing the above which you
> guys are using works because of symlinks.

Jens-
I am basically doing what you are doing. I use stable instead of 
slink, but other than that the same. The trick is that dselect tells me 
to do something different, which doesn't work! Dselect "suggests" that you 
use non-US as the distribution, instead of stable, slink, or something 
else. There is no mention of non-US in the suggested lists of components. 
-Luis

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