Feature request

Gustavo Niemeyer gustavo at niemeyer.net
Mon Aug 13 07:18:31 PDT 2007


Hello Jani,

> I'm new in this list but is it asked before that would it be hard to
> make possible to import apt / yum repository lists directly from web?
>
> Examples:
> http://apt.kde-redhat.org/apt/sources.list
> http://apt.kde-redhat.org/apt/kde-redhat/fedora/kde.repo
>
> There is already feature to fetch repo information from url, but it
> only works for smart own channel format.

It should be pretty simple to add that, since we already have parsing of
the local sources.list file in one of the standard plugins.  I'm not
sure how often people will want to do that though, so it's not clear
that it should be a Smart command, rather than an external script.

-- 
Gustavo Niemeyer
http://niemeyer.net



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