Re: The future of the amd64 port

[David Liontooth <liontooth@cogweb.net>]

rickh wrote:
> I should know this, but my choices for sources.list repositories have always
> been provided by the installation program.  Now it seems that I'll have to
> change it, and I'm not sure what the exact change should be.
>
> I'm guessing something like:
> deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/amd64/ testing main contrib non-free
> deb-src ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/amd64/ testing main contrib non-free
>
> Would someone please clarify the exact syntax.
>   
I recommend using this in /tmp:

netselect-apt unstable

It will find you the fastest repository and create a version of 
sources.list you can copy selectively to /etc/apt/sources.list.

Dave