Re: How to add dependencies that exist in another repository
Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> writes:
> On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 04:50:49PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
>> On Wed, 10 Nov 2010, Bob Proulx wrote:
>> > The packages for Debian there add a source.list.d file as you
>> > describe. (And it really confused me until I figured out what it had
>>
>> Which begs the question: why do we even have source.list.d/ suport in
>> the first place (or, if it is really useful to other users of apt, why
>> is it enabled by default) ?
>
> - An organisation/site with a private repository or mirror can provide the
> configuration for this as a package or preinstalled file without
> interfering with per-machine configuration
> - Non-Debian packages (such as Chrome) can integrate with the usual update
> mechanisms rather than reinventing this wheel
> - Mobile users can enable and disable sources in different locations just by
> renaming the files (this is now less important thanks to cdn.debian.net,
> though that is not yet an official service)
>
> Ben.
To give a users use case:
I have a package my-apt-config that installs the gpg key for the local
repository, a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ file, /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/ file
and /etc/apt/preferences.d/ file with all the right settings for me.
With one simple package I configure apt to my needs on a new system and
any changes are easily distributed through the package via
update/upgarde. Doing that with include directives would be way harder
and violate policy (don't edit other packages conffiles).
MfG
Goswin
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