Bug#904678: dpkg-reconfigure apt-file ought to give me sources contents
Ian Jackson:
> Niels Thykier writes ("Re: Bug#904678: dpkg-reconfigure apt-file ought to give me sources contents"):
>> I can appreciate those suggestions from a user perspective. However,
>> from a maintainer perspective, I do not want all the trouble and issues
>> of having to maintain maintscripts, debconf prompts, etc.
>
> Mmm.
>
>> But we can certainly improve the situation despite of that. As I
>> understand you, the primary key issue is finding the index names. What
>> do you think of a "list-indices" command a la:
>
> That helps, but I think documentation improvements are also needed.
>
Certainly. Concrete pointers/ideas are welcome. :)
>> """
>> $ apt-file list-indices
>> +-----------------+-----------------------------+
>> | Index Name (-I) | DefaultEnabled (Apt config) |
>> +-----------------+-----------------------------+
>> | deb | <unset> |
>> | udeb | false |
>> | deb-legacy | <unset> |
>> | dsc | false |
>> +-----------------+-----------------------------+
>> """
>
> This is a good idea.
>
Ok, will add it. :)
Exact command/action name pending the next section.
> I still want enabling this feature to be easier. How about a
> providing a command which edits /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50apt-file.conf to
> enable the sources contents ? And, presumably, also runs apt update.
>
> Thanks,
> Ian.
>
IMO, the APT config format is too flexible to be trivial to edit in
general with more corner cases than I expect I will get right. But I
suppose we could make apt-file generate a 60apt-file-auto.conf using a
subset of the format (apt-config dump) and with comments to encourage
people to stick with that format.
The separate file also has the advantage of avoiding "gratuitous
conffile prompts" for people that just enabled the indices but are
otherwise happy with the defaults.
Thanks,
~Niels
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