Salut, > The use case I have in mind here is: > I have two machines: a laptop, and a server. I don't run apt very often > on the server, but I still care about the packages installed there. So, > I'd like to monitor those packages using how-can-i-help on my laptop. > It would be more convenient if the list of packages was provided as a > file (.config/how-can-i-help/packages by default, maybe?).
As how-can-i-help is primarily intended to be run as apt-get hook, (is it?) our config file should probably live in /var/lib/how-can-i-help. Obviously that place is not user writable. I think it would be odd for the user to manage both its own additional-packages-configuration-file and a global one. Maybe `how-can-i-help -p somepackage,anotherniceone` could add these packages to /var/lib/how-can-i-help/packages when missing and when the application is run as priviledgied user. At first I found it quite confusing the change of behavior depending on the privileges, and the need to always output: "Not running as root, implies --all (lists all opportunities)..." and "Show all opportunities, not just new ones: how-can-i-help --all". Maybe consider some simplier messages: "All opportunities" and "New opportunities". Best regards, Christophe The not-so-useful per user implementation: diff --git a/bin/how-can-i-help b/bin/how-can-i-help index 7e34119..524009e 100755 --- a/bin/how-can-i-help +++ b/bin/how-can-i-help @@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ require 'optparse' HELPITEMS_URL = 'http://udd.debian.org/how-can-i-help.json.gz' DATADIR = '/var/lib/how-can-i-help' SEEN_LOCAL = "#{DATADIR}/seen.json" +PACKAGES = "#{Dir.home}/.config/how-can-i-help/packages" include Debian @@ -95,6 +96,15 @@ str.split(/\n/).each do |l| end end +# add user defined packages +if File.file?(PACKAGES) + File.open(PACKAGES, 'r') do |f| + while (package = f.gets) + packages << package.rstrip + end + end +end + helpitems_filtered = [] helpitems.each do |hi| next if (not $all) and seen.include?(hi['hash']) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
