Re: alpha/slink available via http?

[Jeff Noxon <jeff@planetfall.com>]

On Wed, Aug 19, 1998 at 06:47:54PM +0200, Michael Holzt wrote:
> At 20:23 18.08.98 -0500, you wrote:
> >Slink for Alpha doesn't exist on ftp1.us.debian.org.  Is there a mirror
> >that has these binaries available via http?
> 
> You are wrong. In debian/dists/slink/{main|contrib|non-free} are links
> named binary-alpha pointing to debian/dists/sid/{main|contrib|non-free}.

No I'm not.  :)  Unless it's somewhere else (not where you said I'd find
it.)

1. This doesn't work via http (the symlinks aren't followed by the server)

2. Even if I go directly to sid (bypassing the symlinks), the only Alpha
directory is disks-alpha:

lftp ftp1.us.debian.org:/debian/dists/sid/main> ls
drwxr-xr-x   7 archive  debian       1024 Jul 29 18:51 .
drwxr-xr-x   5 archive  debian       1024 Jul 23 19:18 ..
lrwxrwxrwx   1 archive  debian         30 Jul 29 20:07 binary-all -> ../../unstable/main/binary-all
drwxrwxr-x  28 archive  debian       1024 Aug 18 15:37 binary-arm
drwxrwxr-x  28 archive  debian       1024 Aug 18 15:37 binary-hurd-i386
drwxr-xr-x  28 archive  debian       1024 Aug 18 15:37 binary-sparc
drwxrwxr-x   4 archive  debian       1024 Jul  4 02:01 disks-alpha
drwxrwxr-x   4 archive  debian       1024 Jul 23 19:01 disks-sparc

> So you may enter as directories in dselect either 
> dists/slink/main ... or dists/sid/main ...
> 
> Both will work.

Neither will work.

This problem is apparently unique to ftp1.us.debian.org.  Other mirrors
work correctly.

Is sid the actual name of the distribution?  Why not slink?

Thanks

Jeff