[plug] woody security

garry garbuck at tpg.com.au
Wed Mar 6 07:05:33 WST 2002


Sorry, this didnt format the same on the reader..
"location string" =  ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security


> Another question.. does the location string just get replaced with the
> quoted mirror location?
>
> deb ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security testing/updates main contrib
> non-free
>
>       |<--------------------------------------------------->|
>
>                      "location string"
>
> I ask this because I find the directory (and consequently url) structure
> repetitive and confusing.
>
> eg for a fictitious university..
>
> "ftp://rottnest.edu.au/pub/mirror" is the quoted mirror address..
>
> Does this become the sources.list entry?
>
> deb ftp://rottnest.edu.au/pub/mirror/ testing/updates main contri
> b non-free
>
> This sounds easy I'm sure, but is frustrating the hell out of me!!
>
> TIA
> Garry.



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