Package: debtorrent
Severity: minor
I have debtorrent set up on my machine and I use it for both my etch/amd64
main machine and my lenny/i386 chroot. Because all my source lines in
apt.sources point to localhost, even though the debtorrent proxy then
forwards those requests to about a dozen different locations, when I use
apt-cache policy or the like, it doesn't tell me which of the forwarded-to
servers is implicated. e.g.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache policy ia32-libs-xulrunner
ia32-libs-xulrunner:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 1.8.1.3-0.2
Version table:
1.8.1.3-0.2 0
500 http://localhost etch/main Packages
which doesn't tell me whether it's a real debian package coming from
*.debian.org or if it's coming from backports.org, or some other repository
I might have used to install some particular package.
A quick grep through /var/lib/apt/lists/ shows me it's coming from
debian-multimedia.org, but it's suboptimal having to do that.
Ideally, apt-cache policy (and probalby other places) would include the path
part of the source line in the description, e.g.
500 http://localhost:9988/www.debian-multimedia.org etch/main Packages
on my lenny/i386 chroot, that might be more like this:
500 debtorrent://localhost/www.debian-multimedia.org etch/main Packages
because I use apt-method-debtorrent there (which incidentally is brilliant!)
I can think of other times this change might be useful, for example if there
are multiple separate repositories on the same server, perhaps a mirror
service or the like.
I expect the fix will have to be in apt rather than debtorrent, but as
debtorrent is the special case that exposes the problem, I figured this was
the place to report it. Apologies if this is the wrong place!
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable'), (50, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-5-amd64
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
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