Question: "source.list" vs the update manager sources

[Sosigene]

Hello everyone,

I would like to understand something:

Why, when I add new sources/repositories in update manager (for example ppa:n-muench/vlc or ppa:kubuntu-ppa/backports), are they not also listed in /etc/apt/sources.list?

Does that means that the update manager is using a different source/repository list than apt-get?
Does that mean that a system update via the update manager will give different results than a "sudo apt-get dist-upgrade" ?


thanks a lot!

Using: Ubuntu 11.10 i386

Sosigene

[Cheesemill]

Have a look in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/
Anything in that folder gets parsed along with /etc/apt/sources.list

(I think that's the correct directory name, I'm not on my Ubuntu box at the minute)

[Sosigene]

Ahhh!
thanks a lot Cheesemill!

Do you have any idea why they are separated like that?
Granted, it is one of those "why" question...

thanks a lot

Sosigene

[Cheesemill]

I think it just makes it easier for applications to add and remove repos, they can just create or delete a file instead of having to parse sources.list and add/remove lines from it.

It happens with a lot of configuration files, every directory on your system that ends with .d works in the same way, for example /etc/apache.conf and /etc/apache.conf.d/ etc...

[Sosigene]

ok, it makes sense...

thanks again Cheesemill

I consider this thread close

[devinwhite717]

Use synaptic it will update all the necessary files