On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 08:46:20PM -0400, Try KDE wrote: > Here is a harder question (in my opinion, anyway): given a http/ftp line in > sources.list, what's apt's algorithm for retrieve the list of packages. For > example, deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free > contrib > > will produce such an output from apt-get: > Get:1 http://http.us.debian.org testing/main Packages [2036kB] > > So exactly what uri was constructed out of it? My browser says > http://http.us.debian.org/testing/main doesn't exist. By the way, apt-get's > manpage is very unclear in this aspects.
The sources.list(5) man page is better, but still doesn't go into enough detail. The actual URL constructed is: http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/Packages.gz The dists/ is implicit when the distribution, "testing" in your case, doesn't end with a slash. The Packages versus Packages.gz thing is my recollection, and *is* confusing when you're trying to set up a local archive and forget to gzip the Packages file (see bug #65839). -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
