Jim?Nick thanks for that -- cheers................dave
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--- Begin Message ---27]) by dbmail-mx3.orcon.co.nz (8.12.11.Beta0/8.12.11.Beta0/Debian-1) with ESMTP id i1PM4PTB008697; Thu, 26 Feb 2004 11:04:25 +1300 Received: from PROCESS-DAEMON.it.canterbury.ac.nz by it.canterbury.ac.nz (PMDF V6.2-X17 #30791) id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (original mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED]); Thu, 26 Feb 2004 11:06:05 +1300 (NEW ZEALAND DAYLIGHT TIME) Received: from PMAS-DAEMON.it.canterbury.ac.nz by it.canterbury.ac.nz (PMDF V6.2-X17 #30791) id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for [EMAIL PROTECTED] (ORCPT [EMAIL PROTECTED]); Thu, 26 Feb 2004 11:06:01 +1300 (NEW ZEALAND DAYLIGHT TIME) Received: from CONVERSION-DAEMON.it.canterbury.ac.nz by it.canterbury.ac.nz (PMDF V6.2-X17 #30791) id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for [EMAIL PROTECTED] (ORCPT [EMAIL PROTECTED]); Thu, 26 Feb 2004 11:06:00 +1300 (NEW ZEALAND DAYLIGHT TIME) Received: from cat.ourshack.com (cat.ourshack.com [212.74.28.153]) by it.canterbury.ac.nz (PMDF V6.2-X17 #30791) with ESMTP id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for [EMAIL PROTECTED] (ORCPT [EMAIL PROTECTED]); Thu, 26 Feb 2004 11:06:00 +1300 (NEW ZEALAND DAYLIGHT TIME) Received: from localhost.ourshack.com ([127.0.0.1] helo=taoying.local ident=jim) by cat.ourshack.com with asmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.24) id 1Aw7AE-000Pyp-0E for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Wed, 25 Feb 2004 22:05:58 +0000 Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 11:04:38 +1300 From: Jim Cheetham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: apt-get sources In-reply-to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: canterbury linux users group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 X-Mailer: GNU Anubis email postprocessor v3.9.93 Content-type: text/plain Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Image-Url: http://jim.gonzul.org/emailimg/[EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Subliminal-Message: Everything I tell you is false X-PMAS-Software: PreciseMail V1.0-03 X-PMAS-Whitelisted: Message whitelisted by user rule References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Comments: University of Canterbury Linux Users Group List-Subscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.38 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60 (1.212-2003-09-23-exp) on mepis1 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=4.5 tests=none autolearn=ham version=2.60 Status: R X-Status: N X-KMail-EncryptionState: X-KMail-SignatureState: On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 10:56, Dave wrote: > I am curently having a play arount with apt-get on Mepis and the default > sources list seems to be huge 50+ sources currently listed - stable/unstable/ > testing > is it normal/desirable to have such large souge group? Debian is mirrored in a lot of places - I guess Mepis just provides as many alternatives as possible. >From the man page for sources.list :- It is important to list sources in order of preference, with the most preferred source listed first. Typically this will result in sorting by speed from fastest to slowest (CD-ROM followed by hosts on a local net-work, followed by distant Internet hosts, for example). You should put the NZ ones first, and after that you can choose whether to have entries or not - I would say not, because you have to retrieve the package list from each one of them whether you're going to download packages from them or not. However, having them means that if citylink dies temporarily, you can still get stuff. On the other hand, they don't die for long, and you only get new installs and ordinary updates from them - security updates come only from security.debian.org - I don't believe that they let the security updates be mirrored. -jim
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