Re: question for sources.list

[Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com>]

Hendrik Boom wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 11:58:20AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
>
> > yes you need to put
> >
> > deb http://ftp...../debian/ stable main...
> > deb-src http://,,,,/debian/ stable main ...
> >
> > sources.list tells apt where to find the packages.
> >
> > but you also need to edit /etc/apt/apt.conf
>
>
> My sarge doesn't have an /etc/apt/apt.conf file.
> Instead, it has an /etc/apt/apt.conf.d dirextory.

man apt.conf

its the configuration for apt and can set all kinds of preferences for 
apt. the APT::DefaultRelease "sarge"; line forces apt to stay within the 
release "sarge" without you specifying on your apt-get install <package> 
line. you can set all kinds of things in apt.conf including the size of 
the cache, whether to pin a package at a certain release and so forth.

A
> -- hendrik