Hi, I got it by applying this patch posted a couple of weeks ago by Tomislav Vujec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Tomislav> If you're using dselest's ftp method (dpkg-ftp), you'll need Tomislav> this small patch, which I included in bug report 8762 for Tomislav> dpkg-ftp: --- /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/ftp/install.orig Thu Dec 5 07:37:13 1996 +++ /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/ftp/install Wed Apr 16 01:47:34 1997 @@ -139,6 +139,7 @@ print "\nProcessing Package files...\n"; my $dist; foreach $dist (@dists) { + $dist =~ tr/\//_/; my $fn = "Packages.$dist"; if (-f $fn) { print " $dist...\n"; Tomislav> It fixes small, but nasty bug in install script which doesn't convert Tomislav> slashes to underscores in packages file names. Now you can enter: Tomislav> unstable hamm/non-free hamm/contrib Tomislav> for distribution list. It works like a charm. manoj -- "If you want the best things to happen in corporate life you have to find ways to be hospitable to the unusual person. You don't get innovation as a democratic process. You almost get it as an anti-democratic process. Certainly you get it as an anthitetical process, so you have to have an environment where the body of people are really amenable to change and can deal with the conflicts that arise out of change an innovation." Max DePree, chairman and CEO of Herman Miller Inc., "Herman Miller's Secrets of Corporate Creativity", The Wall Street Journal, May 3, 1988 Manoj Srivastava <url:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mobile, Alabama USA <url:http://www.datasync.com/%7Esrivasta/> -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .