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.TH APT-SPY 8 "September 25, 2001"
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.SH NAME
apt-spy \- program to generate a /etc/apt/sources.list file
.SH SYNOPSIS
.BR apt-spy " [" -a
.IR string "]"
.RB [ -d
.IR dist ]
.RB [ -e
.IR # ]
.RB [ -f
.IR file ]
.RB [ -l
.IR file ]
.RB [ -s
.IR file ]
.RB [ -h ]
.RB [ -w ]
.SH DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the
.B apt-spy
command.
This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution
because the original program does not have a manual page.
.PP
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\fBapt-spy\fP is a program that downloads from the Debian ftpsite
(ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/README.mirrors.html)
a list of current Debian mirrors, parses that list and tests each site
for latency and bandwidth. It then chooses the top three sites and writes an
/etc/apt/sources.list based on this.
.BR
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.BI -a " string" ", --manual-add = " string
.RI "manually append " string " to end of sources.list"
.TP
.BI -d " dist " ", --distribution = " dist
.RI "Use " dist " STABLE, TESTING or UNSTABLE (default is STABLE)"
.TP
.BI -e " # " ", --early-finish = " #
.RI "Finish after " # " of benchmarked sites are done"
.TP
.BI -f " file " ", --use-file = " file
.RI "Use " file " as server list instead of debian.org"
.TP
.BI "-l " file ", --save-list =" file
List to save instead of /etc/apt/sources.list
.TP
.BI "-s " file ", --save-top =" file
.RI "Save TOP scorers to " file
.TP
.BR "-w "
.RI "Turn on spinning status wheel (increases network load if running over a
network session). This is a new default. The old default was to have the wheel
on unless the -w switch was specified
.TP
.RB -h ", " --help
Print usage information
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR sources.list (5),
.BR apt (8).
.SH AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Stephen Stafford <stephen@clothcat.demon.co.uk>,
for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).
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