On Fri, 5 Mar 1999, Daniel Barclay wrote: > Do you mean that if I download the hamm archive, wait until > slink is stable, download it, and then want to install hamm, > I have to rename my hamm directory to "stable" before I can > use APT?
Yep. > Why does the Filename field in the Package files contain > the "dist/stable" part? (That is, why do the Package > files refer to their own location?) Historical reasons I suspect. > Do I need to rename my directory to something like > ".../hamm/dists/stable/..."? (That's pretty redundant, > especially considering that it already has "dists" in it > (.../mirror/debian/dists/hamm/...).) Run sed over the package file and change the contents around to be more usefull for you. Jason
