On Wed, 19 Nov 1997, Rick Hawkins wrote: > > > I just totally give up with this. Running debian 1.3.1 from CD but now I > > feel > > I need to delve into unstable again (always happens). Thing is, unstable has > > moved dir`s in the distribution and I`ll be damned if I can get the right > > entries into dpkg-ftp to download from it. What paths do I put in? No matter > > what do , either it can`t get the package file (once updated) or can`t find > > the files I want to d`load. > > try /debian/hamm/hamm > > I couldn't find the symlink for unstable last night. For that matter, > dselect could get a listing of hamm when getting the list of availalbe > files, but not when trying to install them. I assume that I was logging > inabout the same time as somethign was updating the site.
The symlink to unstable is in /debian/dists now. This is the new standard. Do not use 'hamm' in any argument you give dpkg-ftp. You don't have to and it is not the proper way to do it. Remco -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
