Debian mirrors and sources.list selections
Andrew Bartlett
abartlet at samba.org
Tue Jul 2 18:26:09 EST 2002
Rasjid Wilcox wrote:
> Other than that, I already beginning to think that apt-get is the best thing
> since sliced bread. I had so many headaches with RedHat rpm dependencies,
> that for the last year or so my solution was always simply to install
> *everything*, wasting at least 3Gig of harddrive space. As far as I can
> tell, with Debian I will be able to have a lean system that only has what I
> want on it, and still be able to install something new without getting gray
> hair.
For those who think that RedHat is still worth looking at - you could
consider apt-rpm. Connectiva ported APT to the RPM platform a little
while back, and places like apt-rpm.tuxfamily.org, freshrpms.net and my
own apt.hawkerc.net/pub provide repositories. (Be warned, mine is on a
64k uplink...).
Here is what I use for my sources.list:
# Package repository URLs
#
# This list is restricted to Red Hat distributions.
#
# signed repositories can have a [sigtag]
# if you remove it, no digital signature check will be made!
#
# RedHat updates mirror at apt-rpm.tuxfamily.org (6.2)
# *** can also be accessed using http if needed (proxy), but ftp is
better ***
#rpm ftp://apt-rpm.tuxfamily.org/apt redhat-updates-6.2/redhat os
powertools
#rpm ftp://apt-rpm.tuxfamily.org/apt redhat-extra-6.2/redhat extra
#rpm-src ftp://apt-rpm.tuxfamily.org/apt redhat-updates-6.2/redhat os
powertools
#rpm-src ftp://apt-rpm.tuxfamily.org/apt redhat-extra-6.2/redhat extra
# RedHat mirror at apt-rpm.tuxfamily.org (7.2)
# *** can also be accessed using http if needed (proxy), but ftp is
better ***
#rpm ftp://apt-rpm.tuxfamily.org/apt redhat-7.2-i386/redhat os
#rpm ftp://apt-rpm.tuxfamily.org/apt redhat-updates-7.2/redhat os
#rpm ftp://apt-rpm.tuxfamily.org/apt redhat-extra-7.2/redhat extra
#rpm-src ftp://apt-rpm.tuxfamily.org/apt redhat-7.2-i386/redhat os
#rpm-src ftp://apt-rpm.tuxfamily.org/apt redhat-updates-7.2/redhat os
#rpm-src ftp://apt-rpm.tuxfamily.org/apt redhat-extra-7.2/redhat extra
# RedHat mirror at apt.hawkerc.net
# - Replace 7.3 with 7.2, 7.1, 6.2 as required.
rpm http://apt.hawkerc.net/pub/apt redhat-7.3-i386/redhat os
rpm http://apt.hawkerc.net/pub/apt redhat-updates-7.3/redhat os
# RedHat mirror at apt-rpm.tuxfamily.org (7.3)
rpm ftp://apt-rpm.tuxfamily.org/apt redhat/7.3/en/i386 os updates extra
rpm-src ftp://apt-rpm.tuxfamily.org/apt redhat/7.3/en/i386 os updates
extra
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Andrew Bartlett abartlet at pcug.org.au
Manager, Authentication Subsystems, Samba Team abartlet at samba.org
Student Network Administrator, Hawker College abartlet at hawkerc.net
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