Re: apt and other sources.
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 02:04:23PM +0200, Sebastiaan wrote:
> But if you want to download more packages and use apt, add these lines to
> /etc/apt/sources.list:
> deb ftp://ftp.nl.uu.net/debian testing main contrib non-free
> deb ftp://ftp.nl.uu.net/debian stable main contrib non-free
...as his previously all-stable machine turns slowly into a testing
system.
> deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security/ potato/updates main contrib
> deb http://security.debian.org/debian-non-US/ potato/non-US main contrib
And since most packages in testing will have higher version numbers
than those in either stable *or* in security, he won't get too many
security updates, either.
> deb-src ftp://ftp.nl.uu.net/debian stable main contrib non-free
And he will only have easy access to stable source code that will
be increasingly irrelevant to his rapidly-approaching-testing system.
Instead, how about:
deb ftp://your.nearby.debian.mirror/debian potato main contrib non-free
deb ftp://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US potato/non-US main contrib non-free
deb ftp://security.debian.org/ potato/updates main contrib non-free
and
deb-src ftp://your.nearby.debian.mirror/debian RELEASE main contrib non-free
deb-src ftp://non-US.debian.org/debian-non-US RELEASE/non-US main contrib non-free
(In the deb-src lines, use either stable, testing, or unstable where
I've indicated RELEASE)
--
Mike Renfro / R&D Engineer, Center for Manufacturing Research,
931 372-3601 / Tennessee Technological University -- renfro@tntech.edu
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