Re: Bug#44023: apt: No documentation on putting "some 'source' uris" in my sources.list

[Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ualberta.ca>]

On Thu, 2 Sep 1999 dvdeug@x8b4e53cd.dhcp.okstate.edu wrote:

> apt-get source keeps telling me to put some source uris in my sources.list.
> Unfortunetly, man sources.list doesn't mention what a source uri is. 
> /usr/doc/users-guide.txt.gz doesn't mention apt-get source or what a source
> uri is either. This is a documentation deficency that needs help.

Look closer:

The deb type
       The deb type describes a typical two-level Debian archive,
       distribution/component. Typically, distribution is one  of
       stable,  unstable,  or  frozen,  while component is one of
       main, contrib,  non-free,  or  non-us.  The  deb-src  type
       describes  a debian distributions source code in the same
       form as the deb type. A deb-src line is required to  fetch
       source indexes.  The format for a sources.list entry using
       the deb and deb-src types are:

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Jason