On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 10:28:28PM +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > I tried searching packages at http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages. I > > entered "pmud" and chose options of distriubution=any and section=any. > > There was nothing found. I think the search engine is broken. > > That's hardly surprising. The search engine has been broken (for $Arch != > i386) from Day 1. Only recently have some feeble attempts been made to fix > it. > > I prefer searching the ftp directories (or the Packages files) directly > any day. (And I prefer downloading a package from unstable manually to > install it by dpkg to mucking with sources.list only temporarily any day > as well.)
But since package pools and the advent of testing, are ftp directories considered fiable ? i have, in the early days of testing, been trying to track if my packages had made it to testing, not finding them under ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/testing, but being told that they are in testing by someone who just had apt pointing on testing and upgraded. Friendly, Sven Luther
