apt source.list

[Panu Matilainen]

On Tue, 13 Apr 2004, david walcroft wrote:

> Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> > Am Mo, den 12.04.2004 schrieb david walcroft um 07:19:
> > 
> > 
> >>What is the format (with example please) for this file,I've looked
> >>around the net including Conectiva but nothing helps
> > 
> > 
> > http://lwn.net/Articles/60650/
> > 
> > 
> >>Thanks for your help       david
> > 
> > 
> > See also http://bazar.conectiva.com.br/~godoy/apt-howto/apt-files.html
> > 
> > Alexander
> > 
> > 
> > 
> Thanks for the web pages,I put it to use but still have problems,
> synaptic accepts my urls and upgrading gives it a fail on downloading
> 
> This is an entry in /etc/apt/source.list for my mirror
> 
> rpm http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/fedora/ linux/core/updates/1/i386 
> updates
> 
> This is an entry in /etc/apt/source.list.d/mirror.list
> 
> http://mirrors.usc.edu/pub/linux/fedora/fedora/ fedora/1/i386 os updates
> 
> The mirror.list url works and mine does not,I checked both urls and they 
> seem to be similar,maybe I'll stick with yum at least it retrieves from 
> my local mirror.

The difference is that public.planetmirror.com doesn't have apt metadata 
in it. The "official" Fedora mirrors only have yum metadata in there, for 
apt you either need to create your own or mirror something that already 
has apt metadata as well (like mirrors.usc.edu)

	- Panu -