netselect-apt for newbies?

Post #188,772 by tjsinclair 1/1/05 6:46:52 PM Reply	netselect-apt for newbies? Has anyone had much experience using netselect-apt to generate a sources.list (with stable, testing and unstable sources) from scratch? I'm trying to write up a short exercise using this and while I get a sources.list, when I run apt-get update I get a lot of 404 and Ign messages. I already have a very good sample sources.list (thanks, Greg) but it would be a nice demo of the Debian package system if we could magic up one from the ether, so to speak. NOTE: The reason I'm assuming we need a mix of stable, testing and unstable is that we're using Knoppix, which is a mix of same. Tom Sinclair "This is a lovely party," said the Bursar to a chair, "I wish I was here." -- The Bursar is a man under a lot of stress (Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies)
Post #188,774 by pwhysall 1/1/05 6:58:52 PM Reply	apt-cache show apt-spy Package: apt-spy\nPriority: optional\nSection: universe/admin\nInstalled-Size: 172\nMaintainer: Stephen Stafford <bagpuss@debian.org>\nArchitecture: i386\nVersion: 3.1-7\nDepends: libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-4), libcurl2 (>= 7.11.2-1)\nFilename: pool/universe/a/apt-spy/apt-spy_3.1-7_i386.deb\nSize: 27582\nMD5sum: 1b93c52830a51ff976d434061777e921\nDescription: writes a sources.list file based on bandwidth tests\n Parses a list of mirrors and tests each of the mirrors for bandwidth.\n Writes a /etc/apt/sources.list file based on the responses it gets.\nBugs: [link\|mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com\|mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com]\nOrigin: Ubuntu\n Peter [link\|http://www.ubuntulinux.org\|Ubuntu Linux] [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal] [link\|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org\|Home] Use P2P for legitimate purposes!
Post #188,804 by tjsinclair 1/1/05 10:23:53 PM Reply	Not bad It takes a bit longer to generate the list, but no errors on update. Tom Sinclair "This is a lovely party," said the Bursar to a chair, "I wish I was here." -- The Bursar is a man under a lot of stress (Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies)

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