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Re: apt-spy overrides previous sources list



This one time, at band camp, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh said:
> On Sat, 27 Jul 2002, synthespian wrote:
> > 	Please help me sort out if this is a feature or a bug in the apt-spy
> > package: when you run it, it'll override your previous checklist. 
> 
> That's not good...
> 
> > 	Shouldn't apt-spy take not take into consideration these? By not
> > overriding those entries? Is that a bug or a feature.
> 
> IMHO it is a bug, but not a major one, since the package proposes to do
> exactly that.  You could file a wishlist bug requesting apt-spy to never
> remove URLs from sources.list, but only add them at the beginning of the
> file (and update those it added, not any others).

IIRC apt-spy moves you old sources.list aside, as something like
sources.list.old - you can just copy the relevant lines back in, if you
like.  I do agree this is less than optimal, but the repair is at least
easy.
Steve
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