[wellylug] Debian Apt Sources

Jamie wellylug at vpc.co.nz
Thu Aug 4 11:45:51 NZST 2005


On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 11:41 +1200, David Antliff wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Aug 2005, Gordon Paynter wrote:
> > On Thu, 04 Aug 2005 09:41, David Antliff wrote:
> >> Well, I am still unable to update from the official mirrors:
> >>
> >> deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
> >> deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib
> >> non-free
> >
> > I'm using only this line:
> >
> >  deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian sid main non-free contrib
> 
> Ah, that would have been my problem - I was using 'unstable' instead of 
> 'sid'. I wonder if that was deprecated recently? I changed it to 'sid' and 
> it's now finding package files to download.

using names is always better than the 'status' as people will attest who
recently got caught by the recent woody/sarge stable/stable transition.


jamie
> 
> Thanks,
> David.
> 
> 




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