Stephan Witoszynskyj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I' would like to keep my system uptodate using dselect with ftp as > installation source. The problem is that I have to use a Socks proxy. Is > there a socksified version of dpkg-ftp? Or can anyone tell me on how to > socksify dpkg-ftp?
The socks4-clients package in unstable includes a "runsocks" script that lets you socksify most programs automatically, "runsocks dselect update" and "runsocks apt-get install lynx" for example. This is what I use at work with our SOCKS firewall. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ Larry froze. Was the bag a trap? He could see the way in, but the other end appeared to be sealed.