On Sat, 8 Nov 2003, Jeff Waugh wrote: > 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
A supplimentary question about sources lists: If the LaMont source has postfix and the official debian site presumably has an earlier version of postfix, then is apt-get smart enough to sort out the latest one? ie: do I just do <apt-get install postfix> and it works as one would hope? > 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 > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
