On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 11:15:15PM -0400, James Vega wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 04:04:31PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote:
> > There are four bugs there:
> > 1. (/.+) should be (.+) -- there's no reason relative urls shouldn't work
> 
> Relative URLs don't make much sense in a sources.list file.  What would
> they be relative to?

I see the example was using a file URI specified by the user.  A
relative URI can make sense in this case, but I'll still need to check
how apt's URIs are handled.

> However, the file URI example in sources.list(5) suggests the format is
> "file:/absolute/path/to/file" instead of the usual
> "file://relative/path" or "file:///absolute/path".  I thought I had used
> the latter formats before, but I may need to revisit that and see what
> apt actually expects/apt-cache policy shows so we can update that
> appropriately.

-- 
James
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