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Bug#352847: marked as done (apt: [apt-get] Add option --url DEB-URL to temporarily use more sources)

Your message dated Fri, 2 Dec 2016 18:58:51 +0100
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and subject line Re: apt: [apt-get] Add option --url DEB-URL to temporarily use more sources
has caused the Debian Bug report #352847,
regarding apt: [apt-get] Add option --url DEB-URL to temporarily use more sources
to be marked as done.

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Package: apt
Version: 0.6.43.2
Severity: wishlist

Many people have personal Debian archive setup. It would be nice if
the entries in sources.list need not always be edited before using apt.

SUGGESTION

Add new option (that can be used multiple times), to temporarily 
add new URLs in addition to those in sources.list. The option could
be repeated multiple times to add more to the "current set of sources
during operation"

   apt-get --url="http://.. unstable main" [--url=...] <command>

-- Package-specific info:

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


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


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.14-2-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US)

Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.3.5-13   GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgcc1                       1:4.0.2-9  GCC support library
ii  libstdc++6                    4.0.2-9    The GNU Standard C++ Library v3

Versions of packages apt recommends:
pn  debian-archive-keyring        <none>     (no description available)

-- no debconf information

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Version: 1.3~rc2

On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 07:16:22PM +0200, Jari Aalto wrote:
> Many people have personal Debian archive setup. It would be nice if
> the entries in sources.list need not always be edited before using apt.
> 
> SUGGESTION
> 
> Add new option (that can be used multiple times), to temporarily 
> add new URLs in addition to those in sources.list. The option could
> be repeated multiple times to add more to the "current set of sources
> during operation"
> 
>    apt-get --url="http://.. unstable main" [--url=...] <command>

This isn't available as-is and will likely never be as this would be
very complicated to have reasonably working AND secure – so I would need
to wontfix this.

That said, I consider this bugreport done anyhow as with >= 1.1 apt
gained support for installing deb packages via *.deb and *.changes files
and with 1.3 we have an --with-source option adding a source of metadata
for a given command only, so that you can use beside the mentioned files
also Packages and Sources files (and a few more things). So that can
work mostly as requested – depending a bit on what was the underlying
usecase of the request.

So, instead of keeping this ten year old bug open forever, I am closing
it as done with the idea that we have the best we could do – if not, we
can always look into further additions via new bugreports.


Best regards

David Kalnischkies

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