On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 02:41:42PM +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > Package: rootstrap > Version: 0.3.22-1 > Severity: wishlist > Tags: patch > > Hi, > > the ability to initialize /etc/apt/sources.list from rootstrap.conf is a > nice feature. Based on this, I wrote a patch for rootstrap to configure > /etc/apt/preferences, too. (rootstrap-apt-preferences.patch)
oh, you probably forgot to diff modules/debian for the other part of the patch, the one which actually writes the file :) > Is it useful to append the sources.list from rootstrap.conf to the > sources.list created by apt (as it's currently done) or would it be > better to replace the sources.list? (Currently the sources.list from apt > is overridden by a default entry made by modules/debian if no sources > list is given in rootstrap.conf. Really? does debootstrap create a sources.list? (I'm not sure, I should check but I think it doesn't). I think I see what you mean, modules/debian:41 has '>>' but that is probably a typo :) I surely didn't mean to append. > Perhaps overwriting could be made configurable by adding a new option to > rootstrap.conf. > > Might it be useful, to configure /etc/apt/apt.conf from rootstrap.conf, > too? Ah, something we surely need is adding the proxies given in rootstrap.conf (if any) to apt.conf, something on the line of if [ -n "$http_proxy ] ; then echo "Acquire::http::Proxy {\"$http_proxy\"};" > /etc/apt/apt.conf; fi if [ -n "$ftp_proxy ] ; then echo "Acquire::ftp::Proxy {\"$ftp_proxy\"};" >> /etc/apt/apt.conf; fi I'm not convinced it would be really useful to grant more options or a full preferences file. Maybe it could be done in a stand-alone module which allows fine tuning of all apt options. bye -- mattia :wq! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]