* Mark wrote [26.11.06 04:41]:
Default apt sources for grml are .de & .at domains. For grml proper, ok. For external Debian packages, default apt sources based on locale would be nice. (Debian.org subdomains make this fairly easy, yes?)
Hm, netselect-apt should make this pretty easy, i think. Btw. it is not as easy as you think. For example multi user systems which different locales for different user. Which should be the default mirror and so on.
The user should get continental selection between Europe, Africa, Asia, North America, South America. The big problem is going over ocean cables for apt updates.
No need for separate files. Have all repos listed in one file, commented out. Scripts like grml2hd can comment-in as appropriate to finalize.
One easy solution would be run ,---- | netselect-apt -o /tmp/sources.list && | cat /tmp/sources.list >> /et/apt/sources.list && | rm /tmp/sources.list `---- and have no debian sources in /et/apt/sources.list
Please note that this have a litte problem, if /tmp/sources.list is a symlink to another file. So if you want to use this in productive environment please use mktemp.
Btw. if you use this solution, the problem is that you must have a network connection that this will work.
M.
Uli