Package: apt
Version: 0.9.9
Severity: wishlist
Hi maintainers,
It would be useful to have the ability to apt-get update a single
repository, without touching the state of other repositories or
downloading their package lists. Updating a single sources.list.d file
would also suffice, and might be easier in terms of syntax.
The primary use case for this would be sbuild: currently, the apt resolver
needs to create a new repository inside the chroot and make apt aware of
it, but if sbuild is run without --apt-update, running `apt-get update`
(which updates every repository) would be inappropriate. So it resorts to
doing some black magic to write out the appropriate /var/lib/apt/lists/
file without actually invoking apt:
http://sources.debian.net/src/sbuild/0.64.0-1/lib/Sbuild/ResolverBase.pm#L179
Being able to run `apt-get update sbuild-build-depends-archive.list` or
something would be much cleaner.
The reason I care about this is that I'm hoping to extend sbuild to allow
adding a new repository at the sbuild command line to provide build
dependencies for the current build only (see bug #700522). I'd rather not
add code to do _more_ of the black magic, and would prefer that apt had a
documented interface to take a new sources.list.d file into account
without updating everything else.
There's also a use case for "normal" end users with lots of repositories,
where a full `apt-get update` takes a while, and they're only looking for
a package in a specific repository.
I tried writing a patch for this, but the most obvious approach ended up
with apt thinking that one sources.list.d file was the _only_ one
configured (and forgetting all other repositories). Patch is attached
because why not; I haven't had time to look into making it work properly,
yet, but might end up doing so eventually.
--
Geoffrey Thomas
gtho...@mokafive.com
diff -Nru apt-0.9.7.5ubuntu5.2/apt-pkg/cachefile.cc apt-0.9.7.5ubuntu5.2+gthomas1/apt-pkg/cachefile.cc
--- apt-0.9.7.5ubuntu5.2/apt-pkg/cachefile.cc 2012-11-01 02:48:40.000000000 -0700
+++ apt-0.9.7.5ubuntu5.2+gthomas1/apt-pkg/cachefile.cc 2013-03-04 18:22:17.000000000 -0800
@@ -110,6 +110,20 @@
return true;
}
/*}}}*/
+// CacheFile::BuildSourceListFile - Open and build one sources.list file/*{{{*/
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------
+/* */
+bool pkgCacheFile::BuildSourceListFile(std::string file, OpProgress *Progress)
+{
+ if (SrcList != NULL)
+ return true;
+
+ SrcList = new pkgSourceList();
+ if (SrcList->Read(file) == false)
+ return _error->Error(_("The list of sources could not be read."));
+ return true;
+}
+ /*}}}*/
// CacheFile::BuildPolicy - Open and build all relevant preferences /*{{{*/
// ---------------------------------------------------------------------
/* */
diff -Nru apt-0.9.7.5ubuntu5.2/apt-pkg/cachefile.h apt-0.9.7.5ubuntu5.2+gthomas1/apt-pkg/cachefile.h
--- apt-0.9.7.5ubuntu5.2/apt-pkg/cachefile.h 2012-11-01 02:48:40.000000000 -0700
+++ apt-0.9.7.5ubuntu5.2+gthomas1/apt-pkg/cachefile.h 2013-03-04 18:22:12.000000000 -0800
@@ -62,6 +62,7 @@
bool BuildCaches(OpProgress *Progress = NULL,bool WithLock = true);
__deprecated bool BuildCaches(OpProgress &Progress,bool const &WithLock = true) { return BuildCaches(&Progress, WithLock); };
bool BuildSourceList(OpProgress *Progress = NULL);
+ bool BuildSourceListFile(std::string file, OpProgress *Progress = NULL);
bool BuildPolicy(OpProgress *Progress = NULL);
bool BuildDepCache(OpProgress *Progress = NULL);
bool Open(OpProgress *Progress = NULL, bool WithLock = true);
diff -Nru apt-0.9.7.5ubuntu5.2/cmdline/apt-get.cc apt-0.9.7.5ubuntu5.2+gthomas1/cmdline/apt-get.cc
--- apt-0.9.7.5ubuntu5.2/cmdline/apt-get.cc 2012-11-09 00:40:44.000000000 -0800
+++ apt-0.9.7.5ubuntu5.2+gthomas1/cmdline/apt-get.cc 2013-03-04 18:21:04.000000000 -0800
@@ -1641,14 +1641,19 @@
/* */
bool DoUpdate(CommandLine &CmdL)
{
- if (CmdL.FileSize() != 1)
- return _error->Error(_("The update command takes no arguments"));
+ if (CmdL.FileSize() > 2)
+ return _error->Error(_("The update command takes at most one argument"));
CacheFile Cache;
// Get the source list
- if (Cache.BuildSourceList() == false)
- return false;
+ if (CmdL.FileSize() == 2) {
+ if (Cache.BuildSourceListFile(CmdL.FileList[1]) == false)
+ return false;
+ } else {
+ if (Cache.BuildSourceList() == false)
+ return false;
+ }
pkgSourceList *List = Cache.GetSourceList();
// Create the progress
