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Re: New sources.list and questions.
How do you set the optimizations for your particular processor? I've looked
for this, but the documentation that I've found for apt-get source has been
pretty spotty.
--Rob
On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 04:05:59PM +0000, Nick Baird wrote:
> You can use the source debs to download and compile optimised
> packages for your machine (if you have the patience), a but
> like Gentoo or LFS. You need to set up the optimisations for
> your processor, and then 'apt-get source -b package' will
> download, compile and generate a new deb for package. Apt-get
> build-dep package will identify and download any dependancies,
> which is important as compiling often needs additional dev
> packages. So you can still use the magic of apt even when
> rolling your own.....
>
> Nick.
>
> On Saturday 26 January 2002 1:31 am, Sarah Hay wrote:
> > Thanks Bruce and Rod. I will comment out the "src" if it is
> > really unnecessary. I didn't know whether it was or not and I
> > really don't think that I need the source code as I don't
> > have any immediate plans to try and become a developer. ;-)
> >
> > Sarah.
> >
> > On Friday 25 January 2002 18:11, Bruce Mobarry wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 05:33:41PM -0600, Sarah Hay wrote:
> > > > Well, as you can see below I have hacked my list down
> > > > considerably. Please let me know what you think. I have
> > > > to ask though are there any security sources for woody? I
> > > > commented out the Non-US src because it kept coming up as
> > > > 404 no matter which mirror i tried. Also, do I need any
> > > > KDE or Ximian sources? If anyone knows these answers
> > > > please post the sources so I can add them and begin my
> > > > upgrading. Thanks!
> > > >
> > > > New sources.list:
> > > >
> > > > #Libranet
> > > > deb https://libranetlinux.com updates/
> > > >
> > > > #Debian
> > > > deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib
> > > > non-free deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing
> > > > main contrib non-free
> > > >
> > > > #Debian Non-US
> > > > deb http://non-us.debian.org/ woody/non-US main contrib
> > > > non-free #deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/ woody/non_US
> > > > main contrib non-free
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Sarah
> > > >
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> > > Hi Sarah,
> > >
> > > There are no security sources for testing, because of the
> > > way that testing was set up by the Debian managers. Thus,
> > > testing is the least secure branch of Debian (and always
> > > will be.) I think that you can add a Ximian source to your
> > > sources.list, but beware: I and others on this list have
> > > had grief with mixing Ximian and straight Debian gnome
> > > packages, because Ximian puts different things in their
> > > packages, causing breakage on your computer. So use either
> > > straight Debian or straight Ximian gnome packages, and you
> > > should be fine. You might also check the unofficial apt
> > > source list at Debian for more sources.
>
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