Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > Mitch Blevins wrote: > > In foo.debian-user, you wrote: > > > On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Mitch Blevins wrote: > > > > > > > > Try http://non-us.debian.org/debian as the URL. > > > > > > > Thanks, Mitch. It works, and I happily have ssh. I'm still curious, > > > though: why is non-US called a distribution in apt, when it is in fact a > > > component? Is this historical or what? > > > > I don't really know, Luis. It seems confusing to me, and picking it > > from the distribution menu in dselect (apt-method) would create a > > wrong sources.list line, if I grok the directory layout correctly. > > > > But I've been wrong before (once or twice). > > You may want to ask this question on debian-devel, or file a bug against > > dselect if you think it is really a bug. I never really used dselect > > to build a sources.list line (until just now), so I never noticed this > > before. Maybe there is a good reason for it. *shrugs* > > Hmmm, I'm not sure where you guys are coming from. I use: > http://conan.eecg.toronto.edu/debian-non-US as the site, slink as the > distribution, > and non-US as the component and it works just dandy. I'm guessing the above > which you > guys are using works because of symlinks.
I typo'd at the top of this message. The URL I meant to print was http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US. But that is irrelevant. The question was... Why does the apt method of dselect included non-US as a choice for a distribution? Please try creating an apt line using dselect to see what I am talking about. -Mitch
