Re: are apt/sources.list http: and ftp: same?

[Gregory Guthrie <gguthrie@mum.edu>]

At 10:52 PM 01/29/2001 -0600, will trillich wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 11:32:41AM -0600, Gregory Guthrie wrote:
> > I found that with http: lines in my /etc/apt/sources.list I pointed to
> > woody, but apt-get would not install known things there. I changed it to
> > ftp: and it worked fine.
> >
> > Should these be the same? If different, is this documented?
>
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/newbieDoc/files/apt-get-intro.html
>
> or,
>
> try "apt-setup" (if you don't have it, try apt-get install base-config)
-- I don't see any discussion there of the difference (if any) between http 
and ftp sites in the sources.list specification.

Gregory
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