On Thursday 05 February 2009, Jonathan Hall wrote: > It seems there is quite a hodge-podge of calling conventions for > passing config variables to the scripts in the tools/ directory. > Several scripts take command line arguments; others use environment > variables. Some use both. > > Is there a method to this madness? > > It seems to me that it would be easier to use the environment for > standard config variables (such as MIRROR, NONFREE, etc, etc) > > which_deb, for instance, takes the config variables of MIRROR and > CODENAME as its first two arguments, followed by a package name and > output format (which I believe should be arguments). I agree. MIRROR should definitely not be passed in as an argument as "local" can have a different mirror path (LOCALDEBS) from the main mirror (MIRROR). which_deb should support that. P.S. Are you subscribed to the list or should we continue to CC you?
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