Re: sources.list question
On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 06:04:45AM -0700, Wm. G. McGrath wrote:
> I'm setting up my sources.list file again looking for faster, closer
> mirrors. I've used netselect to find the best urls for my location
> and setup, and have put together a comparitively small list of
> mirrors on which to base the file. Ok so I've done that.
>
> Now I'd like to test each line in the file and know that it works.
> Is there a simple way to do that? Is there a 'debug' mode, or
> equivilent, for apt or sources.list? I want to confirm that I've got
> the path for each url right, that the distributions and components
> are correct too.
Can't you just do 'apt-get update' (or, better, 'dselect update')? If
the appropriate index files can't be fetched then apt-get will complain.
Cheers,
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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