[conspire] (forw) Re: [svlug] New question.. not really :) (was: svlug Digest, Vol 299, Issue 24)

[Daniel Gimpelevich]

On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 15:14:37 -0700, Rick Moen wrote:

> ----- Forwarded message from Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> -----
> 
> Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 13:50:38 -0700
> To: svlug at lists.svlug.org
> From: Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com>
> Subject: Re: [svlug] New question.. not really :)
> 
> Quoting Bill Kendrick (nbs at sonic.net):
> 
>> Wow, really?  There have only been a very _few_ things that I've missed
>> out of straight Debian, and have had to (or will have to) go elsewhere
>> for:  KDE 3.4.1 and some TTF-related libraries (to get around a crash bug
>> in Tux Paint).
> 
> Two possibly useful resources as addenda to "straight Debian" -- that
> not everyone knows about:
> 
> http://apt-get.org/  Various unofficial apt repositories.
> http://backports.org/  Backports of leading-edge pkgs to Debian-stable.
> 
> Although Debian proper contains a very high number of packages, there
> are always ones that for sundry reasons aren't yet packaged[1] (or are
> prevented from being included by patent or licence-compatibility
> problems, etc.).  Those are often findable via apt-get.org packaged for
> _various_ Debian branches, or through backports.org for the "stable"
> Debian branch.  Disadvantage:  Being unofficial packages, these
> offerings cannot be guaranteed to comply with Debian policy standards.
> 
> [1] apt-get.org lists an unofficial repository for KDE 3.4.1, for
> example.
> 
> ----- End forwarded message -----

I recently took a close look at apt-get.org, and got the distinct
impression that nearly everything there is too ancient to bother with,
going all the way back to Potato. I've been pondering a one-size-fits-all
sources.list file, and I am including what I came up with. Notice that
Christian Marillat's repository is commented out. This is to empasize that
it should only be used until it can be fully rolled into the "official"
Unofficial repository. This file is meant to be used with the
/etc/apt/preferences that follows it, and meant for x86. PPC users should
continue to include Guido Guenther's repository indefinitely. Without
further ado, here are the contents of the files:

deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib
deb ftp://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib non-free
deb ftp://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free

deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free

deb-src ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib
deb-src ftp://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free
deb-src ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib
deb-src ftp://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib non-free

deb http://ftp.debian-unofficial.org/debian sarge main contrib non-free restricted
deb-src http://ftp.debian-unofficial.org/debian sarge main contrib non-free restricted 

#deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ testing main
#deb-src ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ unstable main

Here is /etc/apt/preferences:

Package: *
Pin: release a=unstable
Pin-Priority: 50

The following is a similar sources.list for the Hoary Hedgehog release of
Ubuntu and Kubuntu. Do not use the us.archive.ubuntu.com mirror because it
tends to suffer from file corruption.

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hoary main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hoary main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hoary-updates main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hoary-updates main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary-security main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary-security main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://acm.cs.umn.edu/ubp/ hoary-backports main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://acm.cs.umn.edu/ubp/ hoary-extras main restricted universe multiverse