Bug#54708: base-config: upgrade using debconf cleared my package lists
Joey Hess writes:
> dwitch wrote:
> > The current debconf files have the following problems when applying to
> > an existing install:
> >
> > - only one source is configurable
>
> Not so. You may only add once source at a time, but after each successful
> addition, it lets you go back and add another source.
Ah, OK.
> > - if the ppp link to the net is down, then all package lists are
> > removed while the connexion attempts fail - "apt-get dselect-upgrade"
> > is then confused, believing it has nothing to do, although the package
> > spool is full ...
>
> Again, not so. The program does not touch sources.list at all until it has a
> known good working item to add to it. No package lists are *ever* removed.
> This is how I test items without modifying the sources.list:
> $APTGET -o APT::Get::List-Cleanup=false -o Dir::Etc::source list=$tmpsources update
Sorry if I was not clear. This problem is not with the sources.list,
which was preserved, but with the Packages files, which got removed,
presumably by the failed attempt to update them. Maybe it's a bug in
"apt --no-list-cleanup", though. I'll investigate later, today's
reserved to bugfixing in *my* packages - the list is awfully long
already...
Regards,
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