On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 03:49:08AM +0100, Norman Schmidt wrote: > Hi all! > > Another apt-problem... > > I use dselect to maintain my potato servers and fetch my files via ftp.
from slink (2.1) onward, the recommended choise is APT-GET... > At the moment, my list for the packages looks like this: > > deb ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/debian potato main contrib non-free > deb ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/debian potato/non-US main contrib non-free > deb ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security potato/updates contrib main > non-free > > Now I want to add the lines to get the updates. Do I need and if yes, > how do I include the paths? > > ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/debian/dists/proposed-updates > (which is a link to potato-proposed-updates in the same directory) > > Since I use the non-US-version, do I need (and how do I get) > > deb ftp://security.debian.org/debian-non-US/dists/proposed-updates ? > > The problem seems to be that the proposed-updates - directories are not > under a special distribution. I do not know how to tell this to > apt/dselect. > The manpage doesn´t make this clear to me... > > And one last one: What do I have to add to get sources as well? > > Thanx a lot, Norman. main thing to try is apt-setup to set your sources.list... my 'potato' sources.list looks mostly like this: # deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free # deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free # VERY IMPORTANT -- SECURITY PLUGS: deb http://security.debian.org potato/updates main contrib non-free deb http://ftp.digex.net/debian/ stable main non-free contrib # deb-src http://ftp.digex.net/debian/ stable main non-free contrib deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free # deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free use mirrors that are shortest hops from you (try traceroute to see which respond best). frequently do apt-get update and then apt-get upgrade to make sure the packages you've got installed are kept sparkly fresh. http://www.eGroups.com/files/newbieDoc/apt-get-intro.html -- See, if you were allowed to keep the money, you wouldn't create jobs with it. You'd throw it in the bushes or something. But the government will spend it, thereby creating jobs. -- Dave Barry [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** http://www.dontUthink.com/ volunteer to document your experience for next week's newbies -- http://www.eGroups.com/messages/newbieDoc
