I'm thinking about making the upgrade to slink since it has a couple of additions I'd like to try. After hearing all the great things about apt-get I thought I'd give it a try. I have a local mirror of the Debian ftp site and I'm having trouble figuring out how to modify sources.list to point to it. The trick is that my mirror isn't on an anonymous ftp server, I have to log in to it with my username and password. How can I make apt-get use these when it attempts the ftp? I think I want something along the lines of:
deb ftp://my.local.machine/usr/local/mirror/debian slink main contrib non-free non-US but is there any way to get it to prompt me for a username or password? The man page for sources.list says that the ftp method is highly configurable and to see the ftp.conf(5) man page. Trouble is that man page didn't seem to get installed on my hamm system, even after installing apt from slink? Help, as always, is appreciated! Gary