Preparing smart 0.42

Pascal Bleser pascal.bleser at skynet.be
Wed Jun 14 15:40:28 PDT 2006


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Michael Vogt wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 12:08:42AM +0200, Pascal Bleser wrote:
>> Werner Flamme wrote:
>>> Michael Vogt schrieb am 13.06.2006 12:12:
>>>>> - aptchannelsync.py plugin added that will keep the channels in 
>>>>>   sync with /etc/apt/sources.list{.d} (for debian based distros)
>>>>>
>>>>> Feedback is welcome of course :)
>>> So I feed your back now ;-)
>>>
>>> The syncing with /etc/apt/ is a good idea, but why for debian only? I'm
>>> running SUSE (10.0 and 10.1) with apt, and it works fine. I'd like to see
>>> every change of the sources directly in smart - this is really smart ;-)
>> I'm all against syncing with other package management tools.
>>
>> That's the sort of magic I personally wouldn't want to happen,
>> especially because it doesn't work in the opposite direction (apt-rpm
>> doesn't import/detect/use smart channels).
>>
>> What could be done though, is to ship a script that merges apt-{deb,rpm}
>> sources into smart channels, but it would have to be triggered explicitly.
> 
> This is a complettely optional feature that has to be explicitly
> activated (via sysconf) and defaults to "False". So no worries :)

Ok. Then, of course, it's fine ;)

cheers
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