If I attempt to do a dselect install via ftp from a local mirror which has both the main debian distribution as well as the "non-US" stuff, it doesn't work. Not without jumping through some serious hoops, at any rate.
The problem is that the Packages file on the non-US site do not follow the same conventions as the packages file on the main ftp site. For bo, the "main" Packages file contains entries like "Filename: stable/binary-i386/x11/9fonts_1-4.deb" ^^^^^^ "Filename: bo/binary-i386/bzip_0.21-3.deb" ^^ For hamm, the "main" Packages file contains entries like "Filename: dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/text/2utf_1.01.deb", ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ but the non-US site's Packages file contains entries like "Filename: hamm/binary-i386/apache-ssl_1.2.4+1.11-2.deb" ^^^^ I understand (I think) why this is the way it is, but it makes it impossible to use a symlink to get at the non-US stuff via ftp (using dselect). I don't have any great ideas for the bo links, but if the non-US site kept its files in "dists/unstable/non-us" life would be a lot easier. Any chance there will be a solution forthcoming, or do I need to shut up and hack the Packages files on my mirror? (Easy to do but mirror will be pissed). If no one else has any interest in doing anything like this then it's not worth implementing, I suppose. -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet - 410 South Phillips Avenue - Sioux Falls, SD 57104 phone: (605) 334-4454 fax: (605) 335-1173 mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net PGP Key ID: 0xA33B86E9 - Public key available at keyservers PGP Key fingerprint: CE03 10AF 3281 1858 9D32 C2AB 936D C472 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .