Re: sources.list and url

[Kendall Shaw <queshaw@pacbell.net>]

Stephen Gran <gashuffer09@comcast.net> writes:

> This one time, at band camp, Joe Fred said:
> > What is the relationship between directories and the source.list
> > lines?
> > 
> > What I've read so far refers to a place where the debian distribution
> > is kept. The url above is not debian, it's kde. I tried:
> > 
> > http://www.blarg.org/pub/kde/stable/3.0.3/Debian ./
> > 
> > But, apt-get update produces:
> > 
> > Ign ...
> > 
> > I suppose I can go grab all the deb files, but I'd like to understand this.
> 
> apt is actually looking for Packages.gz, Sources.gz, and Release.  These
> three files contain the information about all sorts of things (depends,
> file size, short description, etc).  They also contain the location of
> all the files that this apt source contains.  When you type 'apt-cache
> show foo', apt retrieves the information about foo, invluding the
> absolute URL for foo.deb, from these files (or, I guess more exactly,
> from the library it's built out of these files).  I think.

So, then my sources.list line is correct, and the kde directory is
missing the Release file?