Bug#148073: marked as done (apt-cdrom cannot be made to not modify sources.list, and damages your system if you try)
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Subject: apt-cdrom cannot be made to not modify sources.list, and damages
your system if you try
From: Jeff Licquia <jlicquia@progeny.com>
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I'm wanting to add a CD-ROM from a program to manage sources.list.
Obviously, I have to add an entry to sources.list in order for the CD to
be useful, but I want to have control over that process. However, I
must use apt-cdrom to do the actual adding, because of the index files.
But apt-cdrom always munges sources.list.
What's worse is that the obvious way to cause it to not munge
sources.list damages your system. If you pass "-o
Dir::Etc::sourcelist=/dev/null", apt-cdrom will happily replace the
character device node /dev/null with a text file containing the
sources.list line for the CD.
So, for now, I'm passing "-o Dir::Etc::sourcelist=<temp_path>/junk" and
removing the junk file. This is suboptimal, and arguably the behavior
regarding /dev/null is dangerous. Please fix it.
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Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 14:19:08 -0600 (MDT)
From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@debian.org>
Subject: Re: Bug#148073: apt-cdrom cannot be made to not modify sources.list,
and damages your system if you try
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To: Jeff Licquia <jlicquia@progeny.com>, 148073-done@bugs.debian.org
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On 24 May 2002, Jeff Licquia wrote:
> I'm wanting to add a CD-ROM from a program to manage sources.list.
> Obviously, I have to add an entry to sources.list in order for the CD to
> be useful, but I want to have control over that process. However, I
> must use apt-cdrom to do the actual adding, because of the index files.
> But apt-cdrom always munges sources.list.
Er, Ok...
> What's worse is that the obvious way to cause it to not munge
> sources.list damages your system. If you pass "-o
> Dir::Etc::sourcelist=/dev/null", apt-cdrom will happily replace the
> character device node /dev/null with a text file containing the
> sources.list line for the CD.
How is this the obvious way? Don't do that :P
> So, for now, I'm passing "-o Dir::Etc::sourcelist=<temp_path>/junk" and
> removing the junk file. This is suboptimal, and arguably the behavior
I can't imagine why you would want to run apt-cdrom and discard the
source.list entires. It makes no sense, all the work apt-cdrom does will
be undone by apt-get if the entries are not preserved.
Jason
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