yum vs. apt

[Scott]

Erik Kjær Pedersen wrote:


 > Torsdag 25 november 2004 01:42 skrev Scott:
 >
 >> I've tweaked the heck out of my sources.list file.
 >
 >
 > Can't you publish your sources.list file. It would be interesting to
 > see various things that works. I do more or less the same as you,
 > using freshrpms, kde-redhat and dag's repositories, but none of the
 > official from fedora. That seems to work

If I told you, I'd have to kill you. ;-)


In all seriousness, I'm new to this and it took me 3 Reinstalls of 
Fedora Core 3 to get to where I am now.  Lots of trial by error.

I'm sure I could do better with this, but since you asked...

 cat /etc/apt/sources.list
#my kick-ass list
rpm ftp://mirrors.usc.edu/pub/linux/fedora/fedora/ fedora/3/i386 os 
updates updates-testing
rpm ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora.us/fedora/ fedora/3/i386 os updates 
updates-testing
rpm ftp://ftp.quicknet.nl/pub/Linux/ftp.fedora.us/fedora/ fedora/3/i386 
os updates updates-testing
rpm ftp://sunsite.mff.cuni.cz/pub/fedora.us/fedora/ fedora/3/i386 os 
updates updates-testing
rpm http://apt.sw.be/ fedora/3/en/i386 dag
rpm http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/apt.sw.be/ fedora/3/en/i386 dag
rpm ftp://ftp.uninett.no/linux/Fedora-contrib/ dag/3/en/i386 dag
rpm http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/freshrpms/pub/dag/ fedora/3/en/i386 dag
rpm http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/freshrpms/pub/dag/ dries/fedora/fc3/i386 dries
rpm http://apt.sw.be/ dries/fedora/fc3/i386 dries
rpm http://wftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/dag/ dries/fedora/fc3/i386 dries
rpm http://ftp.iasi.roedu.net/mirrors/ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/dag/ 
dries/fedora/fc3/i386dries
rpm http://ayo.freshrpms.net/ fedora/linux/3/i386 core os updates freshrpms
rpm http://ayo.ie.freshrpms.net/ fedora/linux/3/i386 core os updates 
freshrpms
rpm http://ayo.uk3.freshrpms.net/ fedora/linux/3/i386 core os updates 
freshrpms
rpm http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/download.atrpms.net/ 
fedora/3/en/i386 at-good at-stable
rpm http://apt.atrpms.net/ fedora/3/en/i386 at-good at-stable
rpm http://wftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/ATrpms/ fedora/3/en/i386 
at-good at-stable
rpm http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/atrpms/download.atrpms.net/ 
fedora/3/en/i386 at-good at-stable
rpm ftp://apt.kde-redhat.org/apt/ kde-redhat/fedora/3 stable testing
rpm ftp://apt.uk.kde-redhat.org/pub/apt/ kde-redhat/fedora/3 stable testing
rpm ftp://apt.us.kde-redhat.org/linux/kde-redhat/apt/ 
kde-redhat/fedora/3 stable testing


I dupe a lot with mirrors cuz half the time 1/3 of these servers are 
overloaded or down.