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Re: How to get proposed updates?



On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 02:01:31PM +0200, Frodo Baggins wrote:
> Hi debianers,
>   In the dist/proposed-updates directory there is  a README file stating
> 
[snip]
> 
> You can access this directory with apt by adding
>   deb http://ftp1.us.debian.org/debian dists/proposed-updates/
> to your /etc/apt/sources.list
>
> Well, I done it but apt complais about a "Malformed line" in the
> /etc/apt/sources.list file, precisely the one above. Looking into the
>

are you sure you have that trailing / after dists/proposed-updates  ?
it has to be there for apt to accept it.

> doc, I found that there should be the components to download such as
> main contrib.. I tried to add something like main, but the it
> complains it can find
> http://ftp1.us.debian.org/debian/dists/proposed-updates/main/binary-i386/Packages
> file... Aparently, directory proposed-updates is structured
> differently from potato/main: files belonging to different
> architectures are differenciated by their suffix instead to be found
> into separate subdirectories. The question is: how do I do to have apt
> looking into proposed-updates? Thanks a lot

yes proposed-updates is a flat namespace, not seperated into
archecture or section.  the above line is correct, (I just tested it)
make sure you have that trailing / i bet that is the problem.

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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