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Re: apt, sources.list and LDAP



Quoting Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ualberta.ca>:

> On 13 Jun 2000, Turbo Fredriksson wrote:
> 
> > I'd like to have the sources.list in a LDAP database, but I don't know
> > much C++... Can anyone see if it's possible to modify apt to move the
> > sources.list into an LDAP database?
> 
> If someone writes an extension that allows you to write:
> 
> import "ldap" "....."
> 
> Which would fork a program called /usr/lib/apt/sources/ldap which would
> then use the query string "...." to return on stdout a list of all
> sources.list lines for that query then I would apply that patch.
> 
> The weird access methods can be packaged seperately and written in perl or
> something.

PERL i know, not C++ :)

I'll see what I can do...
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