[fsug-bangalore] Ubuntu Sources.list

[Abhas Abhinav]

Hi Rakesh...

On Sun, 2005-06-12 at 08:02 +0530, Rakesh 'Arky' Ambati wrote:
> Well, since last night am (remotely) helping out my friend who has
> Ubuntu Hoary installed.
> 
> Now I understand that ubuntu has its own packages repositories and
> stuff.So as am new to Ubuntu, does Ubuntu provide me all the packages of
> say from debian or testing automatically. 
> 
> Or should I have get a mix and match of ubuntu, debian testing or
> unstable packages with pining. 

I use Debian Unstable, Debian Experimental, Ubuntu Hoary and a couple of
other special APT sources in my sourcs.list. This is what I use for
Ubuntu:

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hoary main restricted universe multiverse

I believe Ubuntu provided pretty much the same stuff as Debian though
sometimes its quicker than Debian to update its stuff. Eg.
OpenOffice.org Version 2 has been in Ubuntu for quite some time. Also
Ubuntu has a more relaxed policy w.r.t. the sort of packages that can go
into its repository - as compared to DFSG.

Hope this helps,
Abhas.
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