What is the /etc/apt/source.list for sid

michalng · 04-22-2011, 02:50 AM

Currently on testing and wanted to upgrade to sid

Just wanted to confirm that sid currently does not have things like security/backports/volatile/etc.

Am I correct to assume that Debian Sid's source list will looks something like this:

Quote:

deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free
deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free

with no other default repositories?

evo2 · 04-22-2011, 04:27 AM

Hi,

that's pretty much it. No secutiry/backports/volitile.

You could also add third party repositories (eg debian-multimedia),
or perhaps also testing repositories to ease downgrading packages
that may be temporarily broken.

Cheers,

Evo2.

k3lt01 · 04-22-2011, 04:40 AM

I don't think Volatile exists anymore. Security, Updates, Backports are only for Stable and Old-Stable. Testing, Sid (unstable) and Experimental just have what you listed because they are not for general purpose usage.

TobiSGD · 04-22-2011, 04:46 AM

Volatile still exists, but it was renamed to squeeze-updates and is now hosted on the official mirrors.

k3lt01 · 04-22-2011, 04:55 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TobiSGD

Volatile still exists, but it was renamed to squeeze-updates and is now hosted on the official mirrors.

Not technically correct/ Squeeze-updates superseded volatile like Barrack Obama superseded George W Bush. It is not a renaming it is a complete replacement.

craigevil · 04-22-2011, 12:14 PM

Correct sid/unstable you just need the two lines.
Unless you need things like multimedia, Chrome, Opera, liquorix kernel, kde4.6 etc then you would add other 3rd party repos.

For example my working sources.list has sid, experimental, dmm, google chrome, opera beta, liquorix, aptosid, skype and kde/qt 4.6.

Code:

$ inxi -r
Repos:     Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list
           deb http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free                                                 
           deb http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ experimental main contrib non-free                                             
           deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org unstable main non-free                                                          
           deb http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main                                                               
           deb http://deb.opera.com/opera-beta/ stable non-free                                                                 
           deb http://liquorix.net/debian/ sid main                                                                             
           deb http://debian.tu-bs.de/project/aptosid/debian/ sid main fix.main                                                 
           deb http://download.skype.com/linux/repos/debian/ stable non-free                                                    
           deb http://qt-kde.debian.net/debian experimental-snapshots main