Re: manual Packages file download?

[Zenaan Harkness <zen@freedbms.net>]

BTW, my entire sources.list file is th single line:
deb ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/debian sid main contrib non-free

Now trying with http instead of ftp...

$ sudo apt-get update
Hit http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au sid InRelease
Hit http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au sid/contrib amd64 Packages/DiffIndex
Hit http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au sid/non-free amd64 Packages/DiffIndex
Hit http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au sid/contrib Translation-en/DiffIndex
Hit http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au sid/main Translation-en/DiffIndex
Hit http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au sid/non-free Translation-en/DiffIndex
Get:1 http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au sid/main amd64 Packages [6,828 kB]
Fetched 6,828 kB in 12min 14s (9,291 B/s)
Reading package lists... Done

TADA! Works fine.

OK, so ftp:// protocol is not working.

If it's useful, I'm happy to test why this might be, otherwise, just use HTTP!

BTW, where are those DiffIndex files stored?

Thanks heaps,
Zenaan