Michael Iles wrote: > I wanted to install PGP on my system so I searched out > > ftp://os.inf.tu-dresden.de > > This site has US and international versions of PGP, as well as some other > neat crypto-stuff (encrypted filesystem, a mail client, etc.). > > I tried to point dselect at it though, and couldn't get it to work. It > doesn't share the same directory structure as, say, ftp.debian.org. > Specifically, it doesn't have (stable|non-free|contrib) directories. I > tried using a '.' for the distributions to get and this worked to get > the Packages file, but when I tried to install a package it couldn't > find it on the site. >
I was confused with some debian mirrors. Then I do: - dselect upgrade - from ftp.debian - dselect install - from local mirror or from another Now I have many configurations files in /var/lib/dpkg/methods/ftp: vars.ftp.debian.org vars.sunsite.icm.edu.pl vars.ftp.funet.fi and vars.dresden.nousa. When I want work with some debian site, I make link: ln -sf vars.dresden.nousa vars in this directory. First three configs are for standard distributions, but vars.dresden.nousa is for international packages. I have in vars.dresden.nousa settings: $ftpsite='os.inf.tu-dresden.de'; $passive='1'; $username='anonymous'; $password='[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; $ftpdir='/pub'; $distribs='debian-non-US'; $dldir='debian'; I haven't any problems with this config. Mirek Kwasniak (Mirek sent this only to me and then asked that I forward it to the list. Thanks for the help, Mirek! - Mike) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
