Re: Wow

[Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca>]

On Sat, 4 Apr 1998, Rev. Joseph Carter wrote:

> What I did see however was the apt method which was added to dselect.
> It's a bit rough on the UI still---I gave up on the access menu in dselect
> and just started editing /etc/apt/sources.list by hand.  <g>  Perhaps you
> might consider a slang-type interface to replace that function at a later
> point?  I expected the lack of prettyness there considering .2 version and
> all, but a text GUI for that aspect would allow adding and removing of
> access methods and possibly even reordering them for preference in sites.

I think the setup method works much better in .3? Presumably it wiped your
source list file and that is bad, the original one looked like this;

# Use for a local mirror - remove the llug http lines for the bits
# your mirror contains.
# deb file:/your/mirror/here/debian stable main contrib non-free
# See sources.list(5) for more information
deb http://llug.sep.bnl.gov/debian stable main contrib non-free
deb http://llug.sep.bnl.gov/debian frozen main contrib non-free
deb http://llug.sep.bnl.gov/debian unstable main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/binary-i386/
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/binary-i386/ 

Which shows the proper way to setup non-US, see sources.list(5).

> I noticed the http method was all that is implemented.  When I interrupted
> getting of a package file because I kinda screwed something up and went
> back in later it seemed to continue the file where I left off with it.  I
> was not aware http SUPPORTED reget at all.

It does, and more.. If you can use it, HTTP is way better than FTP for
speed, reliability and features.

Jason


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