Mitch Blevins wrote: > In foo.debian-user, you wrote: > > On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Mitch Blevins wrote: > > > > > > Try http://non-us.debian.org/debian as the URL. > > > > > > > Thanks, Mitch. It works, and I happily have ssh. I'm still curious, > > though: why is non-US called a distribution in apt, when it is in fact a > > component? Is this historical or what? > > I don't really know, Luis. It seems confusing to me, and picking it > from the distribution menu in dselect (apt-method) would create a > wrong sources.list line, if I grok the directory layout correctly. > > But I've been wrong before (once or twice). > You may want to ask this question on debian-devel, or file a bug against > dselect if you think it is really a bug. I never really used dselect > to build a sources.list line (until just now), so I never noticed this > before. Maybe there is a good reason for it. *shrugs*
Hmmm, I'm not sure where you guys are coming from. I use: http://conan.eecg.toronto.edu/debian-non-US as the site, slink as the distribution, and non-US as the component and it works just dandy. I'm guessing the above which you guys are using works because of symlinks. -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
