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netselect-apt

NAME

netselect-apt - create sources.list for the fastest Debian mirrors

SYNOPSIS

netselect-apt [OPTIONS] [stable|testing|unstable|experimental|sarge|etch|lenny|sid]

DESCRIPTION

netselect-apt automatically creates a sources.list file for using with apt for the specified distribution by downloading the list of Debian mirrors using wget and choosing the fastest servers (both US and non-US) using netselect. The output file is written to OUTFILE.

If there is an INFILE (by default "mirrors_full") which lists the Debian mirrors, netselect-apt uses that rather than downloading another copy. The file will be downloaded from http://www.debian.org/mirror/mirrors_full

OPTIONS

stable|testing|unstable|experimental|sarge|etch|lenny|sid

Specify which distribution of Debian to use. By default stable is used.

-s, --sources

While generating OUTFILE include also deb-src lines to use with ``apt-get source'' to obtain Debian source packages.

-i, --infile INFILE

Use INFILE instead of mirrors_full for reading mirror list. The file must be in the same format as mirrors_full.

-o, --outfile OUTFILE

Use OUTFILE instead of sources.list.

-n, --nonfree

Include also non-free section while generating OUTFILE.

-f, --ftp

Use FTP mirrors instead of HTTP and generate OUTFILE accordingly.

ENVIROMENT

WANT_SOURCES

setting this to 1 is equivalent to --sources

WANT_NONFREE

setting this to 1 is equivalent to --nonfree

SEE ALSO

netselect(1), wget(1), apt(8), sources.list(5).

AUTHOR

Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@nit.ca>