Re: apt-setup

[Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>]

On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 08:36:44PM +0000, Filipe David Manana wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Last week I installed Debian Etch on a new machine, after installing
> all the packages I wanted, I decided to switch the sources.list mirror
> to another portuguese Debian mirror. I aways did this task using
> apt-setup, since I don't know the url's for the various portuguese
> mirrors. But the problem is that I can't find apt-setup, it used to be
> on package "base-config" and now it isn't anymore. This package is now
> a transitional package. Two weeks ago I installed Etch at another
> machine and I had apt-setup...
> I have done "dpkg -S apt-setup" on this last machine and found
> apt-setup to be in package base-config...
> 
> So where is now apt-setup?
> I already searched for the contents of packages at the oficial Debian
> site and have not been sucessfull.
You can search for packages containing a given file at:
  http://pdo.debian.net/
  (usually at http://packages.debian.org, which is presently
  disabled).

Note that the Contents file appears to be a couple weeks old, so its
says that apt-setup is still in base-config (which is wrong).

There's also 'apt-spy' which tests for the mirror with the best
connection (but be sure to use the latest version, otherwise it might
crash because of bug #315120).

Even if you don't use the apt-spy functionality, it includes a
mirrors.txt :)

Justin