Bug#247185: feature-request: possibillity to limit actions to a set of sources

[Marc Schoechlin <marc.schoechlin@web.de>]

Package: apt
Version: 0.5.24
Severity: wishlist

Hi !

I think the package-management of debian is the best i ever
used  -  thanks for writing and maintaining such a nice piece
of software :-)

I have a feature-request concerning the selection of sources
for apt-actions.

I use currently a large number of non-offical apt-resources,
but this is not very nice on a productive system - because
this provides way to exploit and damage my systems.

i.e:

- if I include a apt-repository which provides me a 
  certain software, the maintainer of this source is
  able to put his own release of a library, this
  can damage or exploit my system
  
- limiting upgrades to certain sources make updates
  with non-offical apt-sources more calculatable


Would would be a nice extenstion ?

- A possibility to view relations between sources
  and packages for actions like
  upgrade, dist-upgrade, install,...

- A possibility to group sources on a certain
  name - and to define them as default
  release like the parameter in /etc/apt/apt.conf
  does.
  APT::Default-Release "testing";

Best regards

Marc Schoechlin
 

-- Package-specific info:

-- (no /etc/apt/preferences present) --


-- (/etc/apt/sources.list present, but not submitted) --


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.4-1-k7
Locale: LANG=de_DE, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (ignored: LC_ALL set to de_DE@euro)

Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgcc1                     1:3.3.3-6    GCC support library
ii  libstdc++5                  1:3.3.3-6    The GNU Standard C++ Library v3

-- no debconf information