sources.list strange behaviour

[Nick Darby]

On Sat, 2006-10-14 at 20:39 +0100, SteVe Cook wrote:
> > Having looked again in /etc/apt/ I found the sources.list.d directory
> > which contained:
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 165 2006-10-13 14:57 dapper-multiverse.list
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 165 2006-10-13 14:57 dapper-multiverse.list.save
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 138 2006-10-13 14:57 dapper-universe.list
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 138 2006-10-13 14:57 dapper-universe.list.save
> > 
> This directory is empty on my systems
> 
> > When opening gedit to have a look at a file I got this message:
> > (gedit:8935): GnomeUI-WARNING **: While connecting to session manager:
> > Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols
> > specified are supported and host-based authentication failed.
> Welcome to the club :-)
> This issue has been raised before with no real answers.  It appears to 
> be rather random, but oesn't seem to effct anything.
> 
> > 
> > The file dapper-multiverse.save contained:
> > # automatically added by gnome-app-install on 2006-08-15 14:53:30.130076
> > deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper-updates main restricted
> > universe multiverse
> > 
> > So the questions are:
> > Whats going on?
> > Is this gnome specific?
> > Can or should this be removed?
> You could try moving the files to another directory and seeing if 
> apt-get/aptitude update protests.
> 
> SteVe

Thanks again SteVe. I'll experiment a bit.
Incidentally, has anyone used the Debian netselect package?
Regards,

Nick