Re: APT setup (was: Re: An idea...)
Luis Villa wrote:
> 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
Oops. Sorry to add redundant information. I haven't used the dselect method to set apt
sources in a long time because you have to reenter each one (I guess that was part of the
whole point).
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Jens B. Jorgensen
jjorgens@bdsinc.com
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