What should a correct Hoary souces.list look like?
John Hornbeck
hornbeck at freeshell.org
Fri Oct 29 13:37:03 CDT 2004
On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 10:06 -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 07:35:52AM -0500, John Hornbeck wrote:
>
> > I am about to make a howto for starting to use hoary. I would like to
> > see what a fresh hoary sources.list would look like, I have a ton of
> > crap in mine and don't want to try to sort it out due to fear of messing
> > myself up. :-) So if someone could post what it would look like.
>
> If you do this, please ensure that it includes appropriate language (as in
> the Hoary announcement I sent out) which clearly warns users about what they
> are going to do.
>
> If you are going to lower the barrier to entry for Hoary, it is essential
> that the uninitiated know exactly what they are signing up for.
>
> A fresh hoary sources.list from a hypothetical fresh hoary install would
> look something like this:
>
> ## Uncomment the following two lines to fetch updated software from the network
> deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary main restricted
> deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary main restricted
>
> ## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'universe'
> ## repository.
> ## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
> ## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
> ## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
> ## universe WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu security
> ## team.
> # deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary universe
> # deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary universe
>
> deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary-security main restricted
> deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary-security main restricted
>
> i.e., exactly the same as the Warty one, with the string 'warty' replaced
> with 'hoary'.
>
> --
> - mdz
>
I was planning on using your post as the opening for the guide to hoary.
I hope that is ok.
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John Hornbeck
http://hornbeck.freeshell.org/blogger
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