Re: [Q]apt-get'ting x4 debs...

[Defresne Sylvain <sylvain.defresne@enst-bretagne.fr>]

* W. Crowshaw (wcrowshaw@yahoo.com) wrote:
> So, I found the necessary X4 debs for my powerpc debian. At this 
> mirror location, they are
> ftp://ftp.digex.net/debian/pool/main/x/xfree86/xserver-xfree86_4.0.2-1_powerpc.deb 
> .  How do I set up sources.list so that it downloads the necessary 
> packages.  I have tried combinations such as
> deb ftp://ftp.digex.net/debian/pool/main/x/xfree86/
> deb ftp://ftp.digex.net/debian/ pool/main/x/xfree86
> deb ftp://ftp.digex.net/debian/pool/
> None of these works (No surprise there).  Do I need to instead 
> download the necessary packages individually using an ftp session?  I 
> rather have apt-get do it, because of its ability to partially 
> download files and then resume downloads later?

	You need to put the following line :

deb ftp://ftp.digex.net/debian unstable main

	In fact, need a file Packages.gz that indicate where the
	differents packages can be found. This file is located in :

ftp://ftp.digex.net/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-powerpc/Packages.gz

Bye
-- 
DEFRESNE Sylvain