Re: Getting The Most Out Of APT

[Ross Boylan <RossBoylan@stanfordalumni.org>]

Thanks for posting this.  

When one lists both stable and unstable distributions, who wins (for
example, if you use the automatic update procedure)?

I might want to get a thing or two off unstable, but I don't want to just
pull everything since it might be, well, unstable :)

At 09:37 PM 9/25/99 -0400, Todd Suess wrote:
>I ended up creating a good (I think) sources.list file for apt-get ftp,
>so I wanted to share it with the group in case it could benefit anyone
>else, especially those to whom non-us.debian.org seems to have
>dropped off the map (Don't feel bad, I have an OC3 and *I* can't get
>there either.)   ;)
>
>/etc/apt/sources.list
>
>deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
>deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
>deb ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-non-US/dists stable/non-US/binary-i386/
>deb ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-non-US/dists unstable/non-US main 
>contrib non-free