David Z Maze wrote:
Paul Scott <paslist@ultrasw.com> writes:1. Is the algorithm for creating lines for sources.list defined somewhere?sources.list(5) has most of the information you need;
It's the "most" that sometimes gets me.
I do that as often as I can but the point is that the relationship between the directories I see there and the sources.list line is not always obvious.you can also poke around with a Web browser to look for things.
I just tried that one and several variations and they all give 404 errors. Could that branch have been down for several days?2. Is this line correct? deb ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/devel/lang/java/blackdown.org/debian unstable main non-free 3. Is there an http version of this line?Syntactically, it's correct, sure; whether that particular resource happens to exist or not is outside of APT's control. /etc/apt/sources.list on my laptop has deb http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/devel/lang/java/blackdown.org/debian woody non-free main
Thanks, Paul