dsb3 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | 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.
Thanks Dave. It does indeed work! Gary
