Bug#572983: live-helper: Please add *-updates apt-lines when --mode ubuntu

["Cody A.W. Somerville" <cody.somerville@canonical.com>]

Hi Daniel,

On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 1:58 PM, Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> wrote:

On 03/10/2010 04:56 PM, Cody A.W. Somerville wrote:

 You can add those yourself. Please refer to
http://live.debian.net/manual/html/packages.html#package-sources for
instructions on how to do so.

the question is not if it's possible to use third party sources, but if lh should add the update repo for ubuntu automaticaly and by default (same as the security updates or volatile are when building debian images).

lacking any knowledge about ubuntu, it would be nice if you could tell, if lh should do this (and the bug itself is thus valid), or, if not, we should close the bug.

Yes, it probably should since default installs of Ubuntu have those suites enabled. However, I'm not in favor of complicating lh config with a set of options for this like those that exist for Debian's security/volatile. 

I saw on the wiki [1] that there are plans to "rethink sources.list and sources.list.d handling". I think we should solve this as a part of that effort instead of just hacking on this feature since there is already a very easy work around/solution available. If this is the appropriate place to discuss I'm happy to reply with some ideas, otherwise I'll chat with you on IRC.

[1] http://live.debian.net/project/roadmap/

Cheers,

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