Re: Package Download Tool?

From: c0ldfusi0n (c0ldfusi0n_at_mtl2600.org)
Date: 08/26/04

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    Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 20:11:36 -0400
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org

    Jon Dowland wrote:

    >On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 14:04:02 -0400, c0ldfusi0n <c0ldfusi0n@mtl2600.org> wrote:
    >
    >
    >>APT (http://packages.debian.org/{stable|testing|unstable}/base/apt)
    >>Which is a frontend for DPKG
    >>(http://packages.debian.org/{stable|testing|unstable}/base/dpkg)
    >>
    >>
    >
    >Ok but how? How does apt or dpkg determine the architecture - and thus
    >how can it be instructed to use a different one?
    >
    >
    >
    APT uses a file named sources.list located in /etc/apt in which you tell
    Apt what type of Debian installation you're running (stable, testing or
    unstable) and where you also specify where to get the packages.

    I'm running unstable so my /etc/apt/sources.list looks like this:
    # For PHP5
    deb http://packages.dotdeb.org ./
    # sources.list generated by apt-spy v3.1
    deb http://gulus.usherbrooke.ca/debian/ unstable main
    deb-src http://gulus.usherbrooke.ca/debian/ unstable main
    deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US sid/non-US main contrib non-free
    deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US sid/non-US main contrib
    non-free

    A stable/testing installation would be slightly different from that. I
    used a tool named apt-spy (apt-get install apt-spy or
    http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?keywords=apt-spy&searchon=all&subword=1&version=all&release=all)
    to genereate a list of fast mirrors. To do so, just get it and type
    something like
    apt-spy -d {stable|testing|unstable} -a America
    And let it go for a while. You'll end up with the best packages server
    list possible for you!

    Note: does anyone ever tell you your last name oddly looks like
    "download"?! 

    -- 
	- c0ld <c0ldfusi0n@mtl2600.org>
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