[plug] VERY basic debian question

[Nick Bannon]

On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 05:24:20PM +0800, Peter wrote:
[...]
> intra at mirage:/etc/apt$ cat sources.list 
> deb http://ftp.it.net.au/debian unstable main contrib non-free
> deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib 
> non-free

Erm - you know IT (== ftp.wa.au.debian.org) has non-US as well...? ::-)

deb http://ftp.it.net.au/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free

For mostly-stable security updates - using proposed-updates can cut
down on the non-local downloads ;

deb http://ftp.wa.au.debian.org/debian dists/proposed-updates/

It's not a complete substitute for security.debian.org, but packages
waiting to go into subreleases often appear there fairly quickly.

Mirrors of security.debian.org are deliberately discouraged, presumably
on the grounds of not adding extra mirroring delays to updates, but
they're certainly technically possible and can be a sensible option for
firewalled hosts.

If you pick up newer CD sets, the cdrom entries are easily generated
with "apt-cdrom add".

Nick.

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