Re: [Hampshire] Debian security updates by ftp?

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Author: Dave Walker
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Debian security updates by ftp?

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On Fri, 2007-10-12 at 08:33 -0400, Andy Random wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there a deb line I can add to my sources.list to access the Debian
> security repositories via ftp?
>
> Normally I use http for both the main and security repositories, something
> like:
>
> deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ etch main contrib non-free
> deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib
>

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Hi Andy,

You should be able to use, as an example:
deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian stable contrib

The manpage for sources.list offers further examples.

Hope this helps.

Kind Regards,
Dave Walker