Re: [Synaptic-devel] [Bug #3311] support /etc/apt/sources.list.d/

[Michael Vogt]

On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 09:41:22AM +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote:
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> (Savannah throws a php error at me when trying to create an account so
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> On Wed, 23 Apr 2003 address@hidden wrote:
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> > Does this mean that it does not display it in the sources.list editor or
> > does it mean that it does not use it when you click update?
> 
> Both.
> 
> Synaptic doesn't see anything in the sources.list.d directory since it's
> doing all the reading and parsing of sources.list by itself. I have
> beginnings of a patch to add support for it, it's easy to make it read the
> sources.list.d stuff (basically just copy the relevant code from apt-rpm),
> editing them sanely is another issue: without proper support for it in the 
> editor the changes will be written to sources.list instead of the 
> originating sources.list.d entry. I started work on it as well but 
> didn't quite finish it (C++ is anything but "native tongue"  for me :).

Great to hear that you are working on this :)

Please let me know once there is something I can test and help
debugging. 

One problem is that debians apt-get IIRC does not support
sources.list.d style dirs. This isn't optimal as it give the debian
users different packages if they use synaptic (versus plain
apt-get). 

The next thing that's probably a bit problematic is that the
sources.list editor itself is not yet made with glade. I have a glade
model checked into svn but no code is written yet (this is only
relevant if you want to change this editor to show e.g. what files in
sources.list.d are edited).

OTOH, we can make this feature rpm only and no debian user will notice
(no one will probably notice anyway as they don't have a
sources.list.d dir :).
 

>       - Panu -
Michael

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