netselect-apt(1)

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 nonUS) 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>

DEBIAN March 6, 2008 NETSELECT-APT(1)