On 19 Sep 1998, Gary L. Hennigan wrote: >I'm thinking about making the upgrade to slink since it has a couple >of additions I'd like to try. After hearing all the great things about >apt-get I thought I'd give it a try. I have a local mirror of the >Debian ftp site and I'm having trouble figuring out how to modify >sources.list to point to it. The trick is that my mirror isn't on an >anonymous ftp server, I have to log in to it with my username and >password. How can I make apt-get use these when it attempts the ftp? >I think I want something along the lines of: > >deb ftp://my.local.machine/usr/local/mirror/debian slink main contrib non-free >non-US >
typically if you need to specify username/password in a URL you'll use the form: ftp://username:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/path/file let us know if this works for me. - dave -- | oOOooO / [EMAIL PROTECTED] --| oOobodoO / We're just two lost souls, swimming in a --| ooOoOo / fish bowl, year after year. Running over | II / the same old ground, what have we found, | II / The same old fears. Wish you were Here.
