Debian mirrors and sources.list selections

[Andrew Bartlett]

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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