On Wed, 17 Mar 1999, Julian Gilbey wrote: > I wanted to point apt at the slink-proposed-updates. So I tried this > in my sources.list (line break for readability): > > deb ftp://ftp.mcc.ac.uk/pub/linux/distributions/Debian/dists \ > slink-proposed-updates/ > > That found the Packages file but not the packages, whereas > > deb ftp://ftp.mcc.ac.uk/pub/linux/distributions/Debian \ > slink-proposed-updates/ > > found the packages but not the package file. > > I think there maybe something a tiny bit wrong when it comes to > deciding whether to put a "dists" in the path or not.
This is covered more or less in the sources.list man page, the correct path for slink-updates is deb ftp://..../Debian dists/slink-proposed-updates/ Notice the nice uniformity of the archive base and the mandatory presence of the dists leader. It basically works that the first path is used to find .debs and the second is used to find Package files. In that manner you can specify pretty much anything.. The other notation with two or more elements is used only for properly formed dists.. Jason
