On Sat, Feb 08, 2025 at 12:34:15AM +0100, Lee Garrett wrote:
> Package: apt
> Version: 2.9.27
> Severity: wishlist
> X-Debbugs-Cc: deb...@rocketjump.eu
>
> Hi Julian,
>
> when using configuration management tools like ansible it's nice to have a
> method to validate a templated sources.list/.sources file before writing it to
> it's final location, e.g.
>
> apt-validate /tmp/tmp.ptsTUMNbEH/kubernetes.sources
>
> All the tool needs to do is return zero when it parses fine, and one when
> there's a syntax error.
>
> tools like systemd, borgmatic, sshd, icinga2, etc. have similar options.
>
> This would allow to use following task in ansible:
>
> - name: Template .sources file
> template:
> src: sources.j2
> dest: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/{{ name }}.sources
> owner: root
> group: root
> mode: "0644"
> validate: '/usr/sbin/apt-validate %s'
> notify: apt update
>
> in the case of an error the destination file never gets written, preventing
> apt
> from breaking and requiring manual intervention.
I'm not sure what that even means, tbh. Our parser is so lax that it's
more or less meaningless; you'll only get errors at update time when
it actually tries to use the sources.
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