On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 02:28:39PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: > On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 06:02:30PM +0100, James Troup wrote: > > Rick Pasotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security/ potato/updates main > > > contrib non-free > > > > > deb http://security.debian.org/debian-non-US/ potato/non-US main contrib > > > non-free > > ^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^ > > > > > I am now getting 404 errors. > > > > Don't do that then. change 'security' to 'non-US' for the non-US line > > and it'll work. > > I have my doubts that you know what you're talking about.
*ahem* James is one of the people who runs the archive. If he doesn't know what he's talking about here, well, we're doomed. > 1) I have been doing an 'apt-get update' every day for several months > with no error (as I pointed out in the part you snipped). It happened to work. Formerly, security.debian.org and non-us.debian.org were two role names for the same machine; when you have role names, it's always better to use the right one. Alternatively, use a mirror for non-US. > 2) If I change 'security' to 'non-US' will I get the non-US security > updates? All the security updates go in the one location, which your first sources.list line will find. > I already have the line that your change would result in and there > *is* a security.debian.org:/debian-non-US directory tree. Only by FTP. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
