Jens Seidel wrote: > Hi ftpmasters, > > Can you tell us where the woody-proposed-updates can be found? Did you > forgot to create these?
Do you realise that woody is not supported anymore for some years and that woody-proposed-updates probably never existed? Maybe there was already a stable-proposed-updates though... Cheers Luk > For your reference: > > On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 11:38:51AM +0100, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: >> Am Mittwoch, den 06.02.2008, 14:15 +0100 schrieb Jens Seidel: >>> Ralph probably forgot a "apt-get update" but nevertheless the following >>> APT source does no longer exist: >>> >>> deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US proposed-updates/non-US main >>> contrib non-free >>> >>> Does anyone know a mirror for Woody and other (older?) systems? >> As archive.debian.org lives in US TTBOMK it doesn't carry the non-US >> part, and I'm not aware of any archive-non-US host ... >> >> But this exists: >> #v+ >> deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US woody-proposed-updates/non-US >> main contrib non-free >> #v- >> >> I guess non-us.d.o itself is the archive for the non-us parts anyway. >> >>> Also the usage of >>> deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian proposed-updates main contrib non-free >>> in hour site is bad as it refers now probably to Etch whereas it referred >>> in the past to Woody. We should use code names instead. >> Indeed - unfortunately I don't see any woody-proposed-updates on >> archive.debian.org? Were there none when woody got moved to the archive? >> I would guess even then it would be a good idea to have (empty) files >> there -- on the other hand people have to edit their sources.list anyway >> to use the archive. >> >>> Where are currently proposed updates for Woody? >> There are none. >> >>> http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/ lists sarge-proposed-updates/, >>> etch-proposed-updates/, lenny-proposed-updates/, oldstable-proposed-updates/ >>> but no woody-proposed-updates/ or oldoldstable-proposed-updates/ :-) >> Because woody got removed from the mirrors and moved to the archive. >> >>> Even http://archive.debian.org/dists/ misses woody-proposed-updates/ but >>> provides {hamm,potato,slink}-proposed-updates. >> See above about my guessings along that lines. >> >>>> Would it make sense to update some links to old releases to point to >>>> http://archive.debian.org/? Probably not ... >>> Oops, Ralph convinced me that it is important to update even old release >>> pages as Woody may still be used in production (even I have still such a >>> old system). >> And it had been done in the past, see e.g. potato pages. >> >>> I will try to update the pages but need at least woody-proposed-updates ... >> You don't "need" them. If it was empty it gains nothing to list it, but >> if it wasn't (which I have no idea about - propably the people doing the >> move to the archive know?) it should get fixed. >> >> So long, >> Rhonda > > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
