On Wed, 3 Jul 2013, Geoffrey Thomas wrote:
Also want to take a crack at --add-repository? :-) [...]
It would a really nice thing to do but I'm not sure I will have the time
to look into that. :(
Is there an already open bug report for apt-get mentioning our use case
or would you care to open it? They seems two different issues and it
would be unfortunate to lose track of it once this bug gets closed.
I just reported #714877 to apt, with the partial work I did. I'm also cloning
my original bug to a separate report for --add-repository, since that's a
separate request from --add-(extra)-package.
I got a response pretty quickly from one of the apt maintainers pointing
out that this can be done with apt-get as presently implemented, which is
exciting, especially because this will work on existing chroots without
requiring an apt upgrade. So I've implemented that suggestion on my Github
branch (rebased on top of current master), and my existing patch for
--add-repository now works properly.
https://github.com/geofft/sbuild/tree/add-package
The trick is that you can use apt-get update with -o Dir::Etc::sourcelist
to point to the file, -o Dir::Etc::sourceparts pointing at an empty
directory, and -o APT::List-Cleanup=0. Since this allows cleaning up the
existing code in update_archive(), my first commit does this:
https://github.com/geofft/sbuild/commit/557d3946e9fcbd709e003c05fcb211315dab1fab
I think it'd be good to merge that patch now, since that's pure cleanup of
existing code.
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Geoffrey Thomas
gtho...@mokafive.com
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