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deb https://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing contrib main non-free non-free-firmware | |
# deb-src https://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing contrib main non-free non-free-firmware | |
deb https://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing-updates contrib main non-free non-free-firmware | |
# deb-src https://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing-updates contrib main non-free non-free-firmware | |
deb https://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing-proposed-updates contrib main non-free non-free-firmware | |
# deb-src https://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing-proposed-updates contrib main non-free non-free-firmware | |
deb https://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing-backports contrib main non-free non-free-firmware | |
# deb-src https://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing-backports contrib main non-free non-free-firmware | |
deb https://security.debian.org/debian-security/ testing-security contrib main non-free non-free-firmware | |
# deb-src https://security.debian.org/debian-security/ testing-security contrib main non-free non-free-firmware |
Is there really a testing-backports?
Is there really a testing-backports?
Of course, it is there,
maybe it's worth changing "ftp.debian.org" to "deb.debian.org"?
https://wiki.debian.org/ftp.debian.org
I've got, uh ... sort of an odd question re the testing branch of Debian. I was interested in an upgrade to cmus
(a music player); specifically ver 2.11 that was released this past May. I thought, "Why don't I get that from Debian's testing distro - rather than d/l & build from cmus
GitHub?" Poking around led me to this page. Can someone please explain why I would be interested in Bug reports from 2016? WTF use or relevance do these bug reports have w/ the 2.11 release??
This is not recommended by Debian!
Remove, disable or comment out any other stable-specific apt sources, like *-backports or *-updates
Source: Debian Testing
@technikamateur - Thanks for the clarification and the source. I was wondering that myself. so I've set my sources list like this...
### DEBIAN TESTING ###
deb https://deb.debian.org/debian/ testing contrib main non-free non-free-firmware
# deb-src https://deb.debian.org/debian/ testing contrib main non-free non-free-firmware
deb https://security.debian.org/debian-security/ testing-security contrib main non-free non-free-firmware
# deb-src https://security.debian.org/debian-security/ testing-security contrib main non-free non-free-firmware
@UncleSpellbinder exactly what I have.
Just one thing to add: It's possible to use a local Debian mirror to reduce their server load for all non security sources. In addition you will get a greater download speed in most cases, since you should select the nearest mirror.
@technikamateur So I should just change all the deb.debian.org
portions of the repo in the sources list to , in my case, this: debian.uchicago.edu
?
And should security.debian.org
also be changed? Like this: security.debian.uchicago.edu
?
So my final testing sources.list should be as follows??
### DEBIAN TESTING ###
deb https://debian.uchicago.edu/debian/ testing contrib main non-free non-free-firmware
# deb-src https://debian.uchicago.edu/debian/ testing contrib main non-free non-free-firmware
deb https://security.debian.uchicago.edu/debian-security/ testing-security contrib main non-free non-free-firmware
# deb-src https://security.debian.uchicago.edu/debian-security/ testing-security contrib main non-free non-free-firmware
@UncleSpellbinder @technikamateur
A quote from the Debian wiki,
If you are looking for a mirror, use the CDN instead.
Use http://deb.debian.org/ to connect to a CDN that caches packages on a node closest to your geographic and network location.
Source => https://wiki.debian.org/ftp.debian.org
And should
security.debian.org
also be changed? Like this:security.debian.uchicago.edu
?
No. I explicitly wrote non security
So my final testing sources.list should be as follows??
It should/could look like this:
### DEBIAN TESTING ###
deb https://debian.uchicago.edu/debian/ testing contrib main non-free non-free-firmware
# deb-src https://debian.uchicago.edu/debian/ testing contrib main non-free non-free-firmware
deb https://security.debian.org/debian-security/ testing-security contrib main non-free non-free-firmware
# deb-src https://security.debian.org/debian-security/ testing-security contrib main non-free non-free-firmware
Just try it out by running apt update
.
Thanks, @technikamateur
Uncomment the deb-src lines to enable source repos.