Use apt-get source on a debian repo without using /etc/apt/source.list
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I'm trying to use apt-get source
as a regular user on a debian squeeze
system.
I want to retrieve the sources for cyrus-imapd-2.4
from the testing/wheezy
repository.
apt-get source
works without root privileges; however, it seems there is no way to get apt-get to fetch anything from a repository that is not in /etc/apt/sources.list
.
Is there any command line option, alternate sources.list
file, environment variable that will get apt
to work with a custom repository ?
I do have root access so I could change the /etc/apt/sources.list
, however I really do not want to do that for a number of reason.
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