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, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
