On Thu, 2002-06-27 at 00:29, Michael Jinks wrote: > On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 11:15:05AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > > > If you're on the verge of doing 2, it might be better to help test > > Branden's 4.2 packages. Mirrors are listed here: > > > > http://www.debianplanet.org/article.php?sid=696&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0 > > Trying to do this and running into my apt-ignorance, I think. I took > Brendan's list of mirrors and chose a line for my sources.list file, for > example: > > deb http://people.brainfood.com/~doogie/x4.2/mirror sid/i386 / > > ...but 'apt-get update' gripes as follows: > > W: Couldn't stat source package list http://people.brainfood.com sid/i386// Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/people.brainfood.com_%7edoogie_x4.2_mirror_dists_sid_i386___binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) > W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems > E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old > ones used instead. > > I don't normally install packages from outside a given release of the > distro, so this sort of thing is new to me. Have I missed something? > So far I've tried two different mirrors with similar results. I've had success using this mirror: deb ftp://ftp.nlc.no/pub/debian/x4.2 sid/$(ARCH)/ Take care, Peter. -- Peter Whysall peter.whysall@ntlworld.moc The TLD in my email address is sdrawkcab. Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 sid -- kernel 2.4.18
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