On Thu, 2 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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:
[..]
Jason
