Re: apt sources line

[Brian Servis <servis@purdue.edu>]

*- On 25 Apr, Mark Wagnon wrote about "Re: apt sources line"
> George Bonser wrote:
>> 
>> Ok, so what is the line to pick up the slink-proposed-updates packages?
>> 
> 
> I dunno. I checked out
> ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/proposed-updates/. There is a packages
> file in that directory, but there are debs for all the architectures
> there too.
> 
> Will apt-get be able to sort them out? I don't know that either :). I
> wonder what would happen if you tried to install an alpha package on an
> i386 machine?

Then you need a sources.list line of

deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists proposed-updates/

And yes it will sort out which are i386, sparc, etc.  In fact, if you
look at the list in dselect it won't even show the architecture field.

-- 
Brian 
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