Bug#54708: base-config: upgrade using debconf cleared my package lists

[Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>]

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.

> - 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

And there are the only lines of the whole program that touch the sources.list
file:

touch $APTETC/sources.list
echo "" >> $APTETC/sources.list
cat $tmpsources >> $APTETC/sources.list

Unless you can show me something substantial, I am going to close this bug
report.

-- 
see shy jo