<quote who="Alan L Tyree"> > OK, I installed the Debian distribution that SLUG fixed up in the one cd > package. Installation was much easier than I thought on an old Compaq > Armada. > > Everything looks good, BUT question: > > what should a reasonable sources.list file contain?
It should have: 1) A line for Debian's main archive. 2) A line for Debian's non-US archive, because Australia is (mostly) Free. At least compared to the US. 3) If you're on stable, it should have a line for security.debian.org, which is where Debian's security updates are found. This is incredibly important for machines that are publically accessible (via fingers or network). 4) If you need to rebuild Debian packages, you'll need deb-src entries. 5) If you're a keen bean for particular software or have special needs, you can include unofficial sources. On stable, you'll often use this for software backports (I'd go crazy if it weren't for LaMont's postfix backports on my mail servers), but there are heaps of repositories around for cool stuff - check out apt-get.org The sources.list on my gateway has examples of all of these. I use apt-proxy though, which is why you see localhost:9999 - you can install apt-proxy, or swap these hostnames for your local mirror. --- deb http://localhost:9999/debian woody main contrib non-free deb http://localhost:9999/non-US woody/non-US main contrib non-free deb http://localhost:9999/security woody/updates main contrib non-free # LaMont's Official Postfix Backports deb http://people.debian.org/~lamont/woody-updates woody main # Local Packages #deb http://localhost/~jdub/debian ./ # Twisted and apt-proxy 2 (which doesn't work on woody anyway) deb http://twisted.sourceforge.net/debian/woody/ ./ deb http://apt-proxy.sourceforge.net/apt-proxy stable/ # Debian Source deb-src http://localhost:9999/debian unstable main contrib non-free deb-src http://localhost:9999/non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free deb-src http://localhost:9999/debian stable main contrib non-free --- - Jeff -- Come to gnome.conf.au 2004! http://www.gnome.org/~jdub/2004/gnome.conf.au/ A: No. Q: Should I include quotations after my reply? - Nick Moffitt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
