Feature request

[Jani Partanen]

I was thinking that it would be good addition to gui where you already can fetch smart channel format repos from url or local path.

And if it's not big deal to include, why not include it? :)
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: smart-bounces at lists.labix.org 
> [mailto:smart-bounces at lists.labix.org] On Behalf Of Gustavo Niemeyer
> Sent: Monday, August 13, 2007 5:19 PM
> To: smart at labix.org
> Subject: Re: Feature request
> 
> 
> 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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