NEW UNOFFICIAL APT SOURCES.LIST

[MADHATter7]

Follow the link to a whole list of "unofficial" apt-get sources for all kinds of stuff....

Anyway, here is the linkage:

Unofficial Sources.List (http://www.internatif.org/bortzmeyer/debian/apt-sources/)

I just found the link myself, so I am posting for all those who do not know about it..... http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/biggrin.gif

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[MADHATter7]

Some of these are duplicates from Craig's Monster list, but for the most part they are NEW. (at least to me)

Add them to the ULTIMATE SOURCES.LIST by Craig McPherson and have fun ! http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/biggrin.gif

[Craig McPherson]

That list will be assimilated. Resistance is futile. I'm going to be adding those to the live copy of the file, so don't be surprised if it changes a lot over the next few hours. I'll have it stabalized by tomorrow.

[MADHATter7]

As I know you hate editing your sources.list as much as I do, here is a little mh7 trick:

Make multiple sources.list files in your /etc/apt/ directory and make sources.list a symbolic link. Like I have a monster.list, mh7.list, alt.list, basic.list, emerg.list....

If my usual sites are down and/or are giving me slow connections, I issue a rm /etc/apt/sources.list |ln -s /etc/apt/alt.list /etc/apt/sources.list

And then run an apt-get update and continue on - do not need to edit anything ! http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/biggrin.gif

JUST AN IDEA --works for me...

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[This message has been edited by MADHATter7 (edited 12 January 2001).]

[Craig McPherson]

That's a good idea. Even better, you could have a little script to switch them around. Like you pass an argument to the script like "normal" or "backup", and then it has a case statement like this:


case "$1" in
normal)
rm /etc/apt/sources.list
ln -s /etc/apt/normal.list /etc/apt/sources.list
;;
backup)
rm /etc/apt/sources.list
ln -s /etc/apt/backup.list /etc/apt/sources.list
;;
esac


Something like that.

[MADHATter7]

You are right, that is a better idea.

Now I have a small project....

I will post it when it is completed.

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[ColdPack]

Originally posted by MADHATter7:
You are right, that is a better idea.

Now I have a small project....

I will post it when it is completed.


Good plan! Let us know how it's coming along!

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[MADHATter7]

I have written the script, go check it out and give me some pointers: MADHATter7 Newbie Script Post (http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/Forum14/HTML/002043.html)

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